COVID-19 cases continue to decline at Rhode Island nursing homes The COVID-19 crisis has eased everywhere since the winter peak, but itâs been even more profound in nursing homes. By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated March 8, 2021, 10:31 a.m. Email to a Friend In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I.David Goldman/Associated Press PROVIDENCE â Rhode Island nursing homes, once the epicenter of the stateâs COVID-19 crisis, are now seeing heartening signs of progress as the vaccination campaign there wraps up.