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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has imposed a full lockdown on London and southeast England in a desperate attempt to stop a new coronavirus strain from spreading rapidly across the United Kingdom. “After emergency talks on the virus mutation with his top officials, the prime minister canceled his plan to ease pandemic rules for five days during the holiday. Household mixing will be banned in London and the southeast, and socializing will be restricted to just Christmas Day across the rest of England. Residents across the country were told to keep t...

Should Rhode Island cities with the highest COVID-19 rates get the vaccine early? The push to protect at-risk communities may be hampered by mistrust and misinformation, officials say By Edward Fitzpatrick Globe Staff,Updated December 17, 2020, 5:51 p.m. Email to a Friend Central Falls health ambassadors Yanina Zuniga, left, and Elvin Toro stopped by City Hall to replenish their supply of packaged information and face masks to distribute during the coronavirus pandemic.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — By the end of 2020, an estimated 50 percent of Central Falls residents ...

Governor Gina Raimondo On November 19, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo announced that she was issuing orders for a “pause” — a shutdown of some business, but not others.  Perplexing for public health experts was that her order was not going to take effect for more than ten days — after Thanksgiving and Black Friday. At the press briefing announcing the "pause" or partial shutdown, Raimondo expressed her frustration at her inability to impact behavior. "I have been utterly ineffective and getting people to follow the rules in their homes," said Raimondo. Since December 1, the numb...

Political Scene: After eight years in City Hall, Diossa looks back and to the future The New Year promises a welcome respite for term-limited Central Falls Mayor James Diossa after a grueling 2020 leading the Rhode Island city hit harder than any other by COVID-19. He's looking forward, once out of office, to the extra time with his 1-year-old daughter, state Sen. Sandra Cano and to reassess his future. But the break is not likely to last long.  Diossa, a 36-year-old Democrat, is one of a small battalion of Rhode Island politicians, many of them also forced out of office by term limits,...

Increased social media use linked to developing depression, research finds Young adults who increased their use of social media were significantly more likely to develop depression within six months, according to a new national study authored by Dr. Brian Primack, dean of the College of Education and Health Professions and professor of public health at the University of Arkansas. Compared with participants who used less than 120 minutes per day of social media, for example, young adults who used more than 300 minutes per day were 2.8 times as likely to become depressed within six months. The...