Archive for November 2020
Your Coronavirus Update – Nov. 11, 2020
Photo: Member of the National Guard report for duty in March at the Javits Center – and throughout the US, they’ve been with us ever since in this fight against the COVID19 pandemic. NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said a second wave was “getting dangerously close.” Rising infection rates, he warned,…
Read MoreCranston loses a crusader in youth sports to COVID-19 – Robert “Bob” A. DeCosta
Cranston loses a crusader in youth sports – Robert “Bob” A. DeCosta – to COVID-19. His legacy will endure For close to the last fifty years the name Bob DeCosta, Sr. was widely known in youth sports circles throughout the city of Cranston. Whether it was as a coach of youth basketball in CLCF, or…
Read More5 Design Flaws in Your Home that will send buyers running!
By Emilio DiSpirito, Team Leader/Realtor of the DiSpirito Team with HomeSmart Professionals www.DiSpiritoTeam.com Having walked several hundred buyers through homes here in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, my team and I have a solid pulse on what gets buyers excited and what turns them off. Part of getting the highest value with a reasonable time…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – Wed, Nov. 11, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Our needle will get kicked out of the groove later today as a cold front sneaks up on us from the west and delivers some late evening light rain that will continue into Thursday. Morning lows in the upper 50’s will give way to afternoon highs around 70 with increasing cloud…
Read MoreIf it’s Wednesday…it’s Sour Grapes!
by Tim Jones, cartoonist Tim Jones is the creator, artist and writer of the widely popular, self-syndicated comic strip, “Sour Grapes” – a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world. Sour Grapes is currently published in multiple newspapers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today – Nov. 10, 2020
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Pfizer announces new vaccine 90% effective in COVID19 prevention. This is going to be a 2-dose, 3 week-apart injection. Front line health workers most likely to be first. In the summer Pfizer, BioNTech received $1.95 Billion advanced Covid-19 vaccine order from U.S. Government. See our story, here: “The results are really quite…
Read MoreEmbracing classical architecture will help Biden unite Americans
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There – contributing writer I was properly upbraided in a comment on my last post, “Architecture and the ballot box,” for assuming that Joe Biden, if elected president, would not sign a draft proposal to mandate classical architecture for federal buildings. I don’t know how often a new administration…
Read MoreCommunity Health Centers at the front lines of fighting COVID-10
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com, contributing writer on health On Thursday, Nov. 12, three members of the Providence Community Health Centers team will receive the 2020 Meritorious Service Award from the R.I. Public Health Association at the organization’s annual meeting, to be held virtually. The recipients are: Dr. Andrew Saal, MD, MPH, chief medical officer, and…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – Tues, Nov. 10, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist It appears that our needle is stuck in the same record groove, but it happens to be a good one for a change. We’ll have another warm and clear day after some fairly chilly morning dew. Lows around 50 and afternoon highs around 70 with a light southerly to southwesterly breeze…
Read MoreNEW: Eli Lilly antibody therapeutic receives FDA emergency use approval
Lilly’s neutralizing antibody bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) receives FDA emergency use authorization for the treatment of recently diagnosed COVID-19 Bamlanivimab is authorized for treatment of recently diagnosed, mild to moderate COVID-19 in high-risk patients– U.S. government will allocate 300,000 doses of bamlanivimab to high-risk patients, with no out-of-pocket costs for the medication INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 9, 2020: The U.S.…
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