Vaccination John Hope Settlement PHOTO: GoLocal's Richard McCaffrey Coronavirus variants and genomic sequencing are increasingly in the news, and for good reasons. Genomic sequencing may sound like a complicated, boring scientific topic, but your life, and the ability to safely live in Rhode Island, depend on it. You really want Rhode Island to dramatically expand genomic testing. Presently, Rhode Island trials the rest of New England in conducting this form of critical testing, de facto, an early detection system for the variants. The most important thing we must do (and Rhode Island in particular needs to do much better) is to get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible, much faster than has been done so far.