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Governor Gina Raimondo PHOTO: GoLocal From Governor Gina Raimondo’s successor Lt. Governor Dan McKee, to AARP RI, to former Rhode Island Director of Health Dr. Michael Fine, state leaders are loudly and publicly criticizing Raimondo’s management or lack of management of the vaccine rollout. Mayors across the state are calling for Raimondo to resign. The state is ranked third in the United States for cases per capita, fourth for deaths per capita, and 50th in the country for utilization of vaccines.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST Lack of Leadershi...

Monday, February 15, 2021   View Larger + Monday's GoLocal vaccination update provides the most up-to-date information and data on the Rhode Island vaccination program as well as emerging national and global developments.   One state that can’t complain about federal supply of vaccine doses is RI. Each week the backlog gets worse and worse. According to the Centers for Disease Control the RI Department of Health has received 228,650 doses and only administered 141,155 — 87,495 have not been used, now a record in RI.   2. UK Variant Cases Increase in MA - Is RI Testing Enough The number...

Tuesday, February 09, 2021   View Larger + Tuesday's GoLocal vaccination update provides the most up-to-date information and data on the Rhode Island vaccination program as well as emerging national and global developments. 1. Fine Warns Emergency of New Strains and New Vaccines Will Cause Biological "Whac-a-Mole" for Years Dr. Michael Fine warns that battling the virus will be like playing whac-a-mole for years in trying to control the emerging strains of the coronavirus. Fine, the former Rhode Island Director of Health, pointed out in his appearance on GoLocal LIVE on Monday that the stat...

Last summer, Rhode Island was in the news for what appeared to be a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state’s governor, Gina Raimondo, was lauded for her enterprising approach to the outbreak. Now, just seven months later, the state is struggling with surging deaths from the disease and allegations that leading health care companies unnecessarily vaccinated staff and volunteers not in direct contact with patients, while...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? The week before Christmas, hundreds of medical residents at Stanford University Hospital joined an emergency Zoom call. They had been brought together by shared outrage at their administration’s allocation plans for its first 5,000 doses of the newly authorized vaccine for Covid-19, the pandemic that ...