Posts Tagged ‘preparedness’
Coronavirus Update for RI – March 23, 2020
INTERNATIONAL Bolivia delays elections and enters total quarantine India’s streets are quite as country quarantines Israel – The country now has 1,071 official cases, including one death and 18 patients in serious condition Barbados gets 700,000 in ventilators and 1/2 million from Rhianna Hundreds of Americans stranded in Peru as country goes on lockdown – govt…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – Today – March 16, 2020
INTERNATIONAL Alaska’s Iditarod – race will go on without spectators 10 US service members test positive throughout the world 13,000 confirmed cases in Iran – many more expected Saudi Arabia – no flights in or out Spain, France, Italy – all to stay at home; lockdown Israel closed all restaurants, bars, movie theaters Singapore –…
Read MoreUSA – #CoronavirusStrong
by Jeff Gross, contributing writer With the impending crisis this writer decided to do the unthinkable. I needed a few essentials to get by the next weeks, so why not endure the storm and see if indeed the stores were really out of toilet paper? Visions of Cabbage Patch doll mayhem came to mind. What actually happened…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – Today – March 15, 2020
GOOD NEWS First RI coronavirus patient, a faculty member at St. Ray’s has been discharged from the hospital. So. Korea’s huge success in testing must be moderated by realizing that 97% tested negative – or positive for a regular kind of flu/cold/infection – NOT for Covid19 NBA players are helping the hourly workers who work…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update in RI – Today – March 13, 2020
(Note: please refer to our website for daily Coronavirus updates – each day we ADD TO, we do not REPEAT information already covered) GOOD NEWS We may resurface from this with a new vigor to bring back manufacturing and healthcare preparedness, and reduce our dependence on China. Virtual business models are exploding as we see…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update, Tuesday, March 10, 2020
(We feel it’s important to share some turn-around good news – and we fear this may soon become like a snowstorm where everything is closed or canceled – also, after today we will report only major or unusual case #s reported…here we go…as always, updates from original publication time in italics) GOOD NEWS Riders on…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update: 3/7/20 – RI Moves to Level 2 Visitor Restriction for Nursing Homes, Healthcare Facilities
Note: Text message sent out by one RI Nursing Home: “The Health Dept. has issued a recommendation that reads, “The RI DOH has issued a level 2 visitors restriction. This is to protect your loved ones from potential illness. You will need to check in with reception for a brief questioner upon entering the building.…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update: March 6, 2020
(Photo: John Hancock Investments) International Israel Travel – Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines cancel all Israel flights UK – 115 new cases Greece – has 21 more cases, shuts schools and bans public meetings France – 100 new cases Switzerland – first death noted In Italy, where there have been more than 2,000 cases, all schools…
Read MoreUPDATED 9:30am: Coronavirus Update – 3-1-2020
UPDATE: 9:15AM, 3/1/20 – The first case of presumptive case of Coronavirus has been announced in Rhode Island. The person, believed to be in their 40s, had traveled to Italy, and had not returned to work since coming back from Italy about 2 weeks ago. The person is in a hospital being treated and family…
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