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PHOTO: U.S. Army File New mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are a growing threat and are almost certainly in Rhode Island. We are all at particularly great risk from mutations because of the dangerously high infection rate here. Viral mutations are formed inside infected people, and the greater the number of people infected, the more mutations we will get. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a single-stranded RNA virus, in the same family as Ebola, influenza, measles, rabies, and hantavirus. Though SARS-CoV-2 might mutate comparatively slower than others in this nasty group, RNA viruses in general ...

Sunday, January 31, 2021   Dr. Michael Fine, the former Rhode Island Director of Health, is warning that the new coronavirus variants coupled with the high level of disease are going to make the battle against the virus more complicated and take longer. “It’s going to take a couple of years of doing it. It's going to be vaccinations two or three times a year,” said Fine on GoLocal LIVE.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST “I would be surprised if we don't end up with a regular vaccination process with most people needing vaccine vaccination or bo...

Friday, January 29, 2021   Vaccine distribution is underway in RI -- but new variants are a cause for concern, warns Dr. Michael Fine. The State of Rhode Island has announced it is lifting the coronavirus restrictions that have until now required restaurants close at a certain time. Until now, restaurants had to close at 10 PM on weekdays and 10:30 PM on weekends. As of this weekend, that is no longer the case.  “The impact of these variants is that they appear to be more transmissible which means they will infect more people faster. It also means that the level of disease we have at our...

RI is now lagging other states in giving COVID shots Rhode Island got off to a quick start in vaccinating its residents for the coronavirus, but has now slipped into the middle of the pack among U.S. states, according to federal data.  According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data as of Tuesday, Rhode Island, once in the top 10 nationwide for getting doses into arms, now ranks 28th out of 50 states and D.C. in shots administered per capita.  Things are better when looking at the number of people who have received two vaccine doses. Both authorized vaccines on the U.S. ma...

Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine is now completing Phase 3 clinical trial. The vaccine has significant advantages over the two approved vaccines Pfizer and Moderna as the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine does not require complex temperature controls and is a one-shot vaccine. “I would think that no more than two weeks from now the data will be analyzed in a similar fashion, the way we analyzed it with the Moderna and the Pfizer candidate,” Fauci said on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. “That is an independent data and safety monitoring board will look at the data, determine if it’s ...