The state on Thursday is expected to announce who will get the next COVID shots in Rhode Island.
A lot of people have asked to be high on the list: In December alone, the state received more than 40 written requests for, or questions about, vaccine prioritization from businesses and interest groups. They ranged from Lyft to First Student, from librarians to foodservice employees, wastewater treatment workers to broadcast journalists.
The interest groups noted their own particular exposure risks in the age of COVID, as well as their importance to the functioning of society as they asked the state for vaccine consideration.
On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden immediately set to work on confronting the coronavirus pandemic - an issue that is likely to define his first year in office - by signing several executive orders intended to mark a clean break with the policies of his predecessor.
Daily numbers of new cases are finally starting to wane, and hospitalizations are down slightly. But health care systems are still overburdened and another resurgence remains a threat.
The devastating fall and winter wave of coronavirus infections that is causing so much misery across the U.S. appears to have finally peaked, according to
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