RI teachers snap up spots to get first vaccine shot WARWICK — While thousands of Rhode Islanders wore down their mouse padssearching online for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment this weekend, immunizations for teachers and school staff ramped up smoothly. In Warwick, a clinic run by the city fire department delivered 470 shots to school employees and childcare workers in the Veterans Memorial Middle School gymnasium. It was one of a number of educator clinics held throughout the state, and Warwick will hold another clinic for teachers Saturday. "I think it is a reassuring thing and makes us feel better about being in that [school] environment with everyone else," Alexa Resendes, a 23-year-old preschool teaching assistant, said after getting her first shot. "Everyone that I talked to is eager to get the vaccine."