Archive for April 2020
Coronavirus Update – Today, April 19, 2020
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Children 2 and older should wear cloth face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Italy beginning plans to open for summer season – restaurants reducing seating by 50% and moving tables apart. Concerns about local Mafia handing out food and helping community…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Sunday, April 19, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist The winter reminder will have been chased out to sea by daybreak so we can get back to something like normal mid-April weather, high pressure from the south driving warmer southwesterly breezes on the way to a bright and sunny afternoon with highs in the upper 50’s from a clear morning…
Read MoreRhode Island developing pandemic “Crisis Standards of Care”
Rhode Island is in the process of drafting a statewide document called “Crisis Standards of Care”. This document will outline, at this current pandemic time, the ethical foundations of how limiting vital resources for patients would occur, in the real, though hopefully, unnecessary situation where limitation of resources would be necessary. As stated in a…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – Today, April 18, 2020
(Plexiglas cabins on the beach, the proposal of an Italian company to make the bathing establishments safe this season. – https://bit.ly/2KaucpE) NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Large gatherings at public events, such as sports, could remain banned in Los Angeles until at least 2021 Switzerland to open country end of April Chicago has built 2 new hospitals…
Read MoreCapture it! – Daughter Dance Day
by Pamela Bhatia, photographer The traditional Father Daughter Dance is about more than a dance. I’ve photographed many father daughter dances and watched as the dads stand on the side and the girls run around singing at the top of their lungs and playing tag. I know everyone is sad about so many closures but…
Read MoreBring the Farmers Market Home
A little confusing and complex, but the Farm Fresh RI is trying to adapt their wholesale order and pickup/deliver process to residential customers. Here’s what the process is at this time: Residential customers can join wholesale buyers in using the Market Mobile service to get fresh food from local farms. In this unprecedented time, they are seeing…
Read MoreRI Weekend Weather Wrap – Sat/Sun, April 18/19, 2020
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Low pressure with a substantial influx of cool air aloft will provide some throwback winter weather for portions of the area overnight into Saturday morning with some wet snow accumulating up to an inch or so in the higher elevations to the north and west of Providence, rain to the south.…
Read MoreThe “BOYS” of Summer just keep going and going in the RI Senior Softball League
by John Cardullo, sportswriter This is part two of a 4-part series on the slow pitch softball affiliates and what they offer their players throughout Rhode Island. It began as an idea, by Len Yanku, who sent the word out to anyone over the age of 50 who would be interested in playing slow pitch…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – Today, April 17, 2020
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL A resident at a NYC hospital: it feels like no matter what you do, what treatment you give, you are slowly watching someone die,” The federal government is pledging up to $483 million to accelerate the development of Moderna’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, an infusion of money that the Cambridge biotech says would…
Read MoreIn The Arena with Joe Paolino, Jr. & Robin Neale, Care New England
Each week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews people of interest on his program, “In The Arena”. The show airs at 7am on Sundays on ABC6. This week, Robin Neale, Director of Clinical Effectiveness and Infection Prevention for Care New England joins Joe Paolino Jr. to discuss how the pandemic progressed to this point and what are…
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