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Your Coronavirus Update – Jan. 6, 2022
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY
Several schools are moving to remote for today and Friday, with decisions to yet be made about next week. Barrington, Coventry, Burrillville, North Kingstown
Bristol County, MA is using COVID sniffing dogs in 15 schools – they can show where the virus is and where to disinfect.
Knight Library ran out of tests and turned dozens of people who had been waiting in line for hours away.
CT COVID-19 Positivity Rate Around 24 Percent
Fall River: Demand for coronavirus test kits in Fall River has left shelves empty. It’s also become difficult to get an appointment at a free testing site.
The Pawtucket Public Library has canceled all in-person children’s programs for the month of January, but has made Take & Make Kits available.
The omicron variant now makes up roughly 45 percent of cases in the state – and 95% of all cases in US.
Former Mayor Jasiel Correia was to report to prison on Monday, but due to COVID, a judge has changed that date to Friday January 28th.
Birth during the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to lower neurodevelopment scores at 6 months, however, utero exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection was not associated with significant differences on any neurodevelopment domain – Cohort studies of the generation born during the 1918 H1N1 pandemic, for example, found lower educational level attainment in childhood and lower socioeconomic status as adults.
RI College/University Changes: CCRI and RI College will move to online learning when session begins again on Jan 18 and go until Feb 14th, when boosters will be required upon return for staff and students. This includes the nursing school at RIC. During its “winter session,” RISD will pivot to remote instruction from Jan 6 to 13, with classes resuming in-person on Jan. 14.
Cranston Bus Aide Melanie Williams has died of Covid
Johnson and Wales will begin classes online Jan. 10, with plans to move to in-person Jan. 18. Students will be expected to move back into residence halls before the start of classes. All students, staff, faculty will be asked to get tested before coming back to campus.
Rhode Island is now making Pfizer booster doses available to people who completed a primary series of Pfizer vaccine five months ago. Previously, people who completed a primary series of Pfizer vaccine needed to wait at least six months. The booster interval recommendations for people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (two months) or the Moderna vaccine (six months) have not changed.
Rhode Island is recommending new CDC guidance that children ages 5 to 11 who are moderately to severely immunocompromised receive an additional (third) dose of vaccine 28 days after their second dose. This third dose is considered part of the primary series. This is consistent with the guidance for moderately or severely immunocompromised adults. Pfizer is the only vaccine authorized for use by people aged 5 or older.
TODAY: Vaccination clinics – register at C19vaccineri.org
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL
Texas Gov. will sue over vaccine mandate for National Guard.
French President Macron is putting pressure on the unvaccinated with social restrictions
Chicago teachers vote 73% not to return to school out of concerns over COVID – no distant learning is provide – concerns over testing, safety equipment, processes, etc. Schools are closed with no distance learning set up.
Arizona Governor announced that eligible families will be able to take their children’s education dollars elsewhere if their public school closes.
Golden Globes will take place Jan. 9th, with no celebrity presenters.
A leading expert who helped create the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine said that giving everyone in the world booster shots multiple times a year is not feasible. “We can’t vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It’s not sustainable or affordable,” Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and head of the UK’s Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, told The Daily Telegraph in an interview published Tuesday.
Walmart to pay one week (not two) for COVID positive workers, extends hybrid remote work.