The trends for COVID-19 in Rhode Island continue to move generally in the right direction, while differences in test results in urban areas might have implications for our response to the pandemic.
The assumptions of an ideological insider class in Rhode Island discount and brush aside diverse ideas that would help the state run better and recover from economic hits.
Yesterday, the Flanders Legal Center for Freedom, an initiative of the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity, released a brief analysis of the laws under which Governor Gina Raimondo has been dictating rules for all Rhode Islanders and our businesses, churches, and organizations.
To present the point about population density in a way progressives might understand, a comparison that leaves open the possibility of racism might help. Meanwhile, RI’s COVID-19 outlook continues to improve.
The Ocean State’s COVID-19 picture continues to improve while Rhode Islanders await the effects of mild loosening of restrictions.
Across all of the various measures, COVID-19 is on the decline in Rhode Island, reminding us that the next question is what our thresholds for faster reopening should be.
As COVID-19 deaths continue to remain stubbornly consistent, as other measures decline, it should begin to change the way we think of the disease.
Protests are more-difficult during these times, but not impossible, and Monday, May 11, from 12:00-2:00 p.m., there will be one at the Rhode Island State House in Providence.
Focusing on the racial attributes of Rhode Islanders who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 can obscure the information that is critical to understand about the disease.
We shouldn’t look for meaning in coincidences or the situations of our lives so much as the opportunity to develop a sense of relationship.
The positive trends continue. All that can really be said is that my simplistic model seems to expect that things would be improving a little more quickly than they are, but that’s a good problem to have.
An interesting discrepancy can be observed between the way Governor Gina Raimondo’s decree that everybody must wear face masks in public places was reported yesterday and the text of the order itself.
As COVID-19 numbers in Rhode Island continue to improve, we should note that those at risk from the disease are different from those at risk from an economic shutdown and realize that we may have made a terrible mistake in our response.
Rhode Islanders should take the indicted ex-mayor of Fall River as a warning sign as our governor assumes authority to review the business models and safety plans for every organization in the state.
Rhode Island’s daily reports on COVID-19 are settling into a pattern over the past few days. The number of total cases is growing more slowly each day, and hospitalizations are generally down, while deaths continue to increase at a more or less steady pace.
The best news today comes from the number of positive cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island, which along with hospitalizations, suggests that we’re on the downward slope.
Rhode Island’s news media is reporting 17 more COVID-19 deaths, which sounds like a lot until you realize that, according to the state, only one of them was reported to have actually happened yesterday.
Revisions of COVID-19 hospitalization and death numbers going back weeks do raise questions, but trends continue to be generally positive.
When an unexpected crisis hits, it’s very important to watch the things that the people in charge prioritize, because it shows voters and taxpayers what they value.
Various bits of news are making the case that government COVID-19 statistics are now inflating the numbers, but even so, today’s report for RI has some good news.
The Dept. of Health’s big revision of COVID-19 hospitalization numbers raises doubts about the state’s numbers and (depending on the new methodology) might make hospitalizations useless for judging the danger of the disease.
The situation continues to improve in RI, although not as quickly as we might like, and the trends in our neighboring states should not stop us from loosening the shutdown.
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