Providence is opening vaccination on Friday to residents age 65 and older who live in 02907, 02908, and 02909. Those three zip codes have the highest infection rate in the state, after Central Falls.
The Biden administration is promising to finally solve the nation's chronic shortage of COVID-19 tests. But is the new administration doing enough,
Covid-19
Feb 3, 2021 11:17 AM By Sabrina Emms It may be time to pull two masks from the box instead of one, or double layer your surgical mask with a cloth one. AFP / ROSLAN RAHMAN
Many people have adjusted to the new normal checking for keys, wallet and mask before leaving the house. Now, that might be changing a bit. Instead of one mask, people are reaching for two. Anthony Fauci, MD, endorsed the trend of double masking to NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective. said Dr. Fauci.
The Social Order
From the time of the Roman Empire until well after the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882, many of the best medical minds believed that miasmas invisible vapors emitted from the earth caused killer infections such as typhus, diphtheria, and malaria. Though the bacteriological revolution of the late nineteenth century routed that theory, a new miasma theory has lately sprung up in schools of public health, holding that racism and sexism, though as unmeasurable as the ancient miasmas, cause AIDS, cancer, drug addiction, and heart disease. Indeed, according to public health professors, living in America is acutely hazardous to women and minorities, so shot through is the United States with sickness-producing even fatal injustice and bigotry.