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Your Coronavirus Update – Today, March 11, 2021
Photo: Most Rhode Islanders will receive a card like this with specific dates/times on it after their first vaccination. Courtesy KAMR – Expect to see apps develop as proving vaccination status becomes required for entry into large venues, flying, etc.
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY
Gov. McKee review will now be on Fridays at 11am.
RI could receive $1.2billion from the federal stimulus bill.
The Rhode Island Foundation is offering local libraries, schools, municipal agencies and nonprofit groups grants of up to $10,000 to fund proposals that bring people together as a community. March 12 is the deadline to apply.
A COVID-19 vaccine delivery program brought second doses to Massachusetts residents challenged by mobility and increased health risk.
In Warwick, school personnel vaccinations for 1st dose of Pfizer vaccines begin at Veterans Memorial Middle School, 1-4pm for public, private, parochial teachers & staff, licensed child care workers. 1st dose clinics: 3/13, 20 & 27. 2nd dose: 4/3, 10 & 17. City will contact approx. 430 workers.
RIDLT is warning about an email phishing scam – do not open or respond to emails asking if you are receiving unemployment in Canada.
New mass vaccination clinic opened in Middletown (where Benny’s used to be)
The RI Lifespan site is now scheduling vaccines for patients waiting for an organ transplant.
Lombardo’s Dining in MA will become a temporary courthouse.
Newport St. Patrick’s Day Parade (postponed to tentatively September 25
Block Island to host Fourth of July festivities amid increased vacation interest – Chamber says their phones are ringing off the hook.
Massachusetts will revamp their registration website for vaccines – it should be active by Friday – the new format will have you register and then the system will contact you with an appt.
RI LIST of underlying medical conditions:
Today’s Data – March 10, 2021
Deaths: 3
Tests – 129,595 – Positives – 318 – Percent positive – 1.9%
Hospitalized – 142 – In ICU – 21 – Ventilated – 16
Deaths in hospital – 1 – New Admissions – 19 – New Discharges -22
Vaccinated – 241,795; Both shots – 97,716
List of cases by city/town as noted by the Providence Journal:
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL
The national stimulus passed – checks should be coming soon for $1400 stimulus and $300 extended additional employment, housing payment extensions, etc.
President Biden will speak today on one of the one-year anniversary moments of COVID-19 at 8pm – this also marks 50+ days without taking questions from members of the press.
“The global community will find out fairly soon, within the next few years” what started the coronavirus pandemic, a key member of a World Health Organization-led investigation into the pandemic’s origins said on Wednesday.
Texas is leading 12 states to drop mask mandates.
United Natural Food Inc. – based in RI – earned a $59 million profit in the company’s fiscal-year
Your passport to freedom? China’s digital certificate, launched Tuesday, details an individual’s Covid-19 test results and vaccination record. It will be a required form of personal identification to register for an International Travel Health Certificate that runs on the messaging app WeChat. The certificate can be printed out and includes an encrypted QR code that makes Chinese travelers’ health information available to other countries. On Weibo, the topic of the international travel health certificate has been viewed more than 40 million times since March 7. The launch also prompted strong negative reactions in English-language spaces, including claims that a “vaccine passport” would be rolled out in the UK. (The EU is reportedly considering a “vaccine passport” program to allow vaccinated people to move freely within the 27-member bloc.) The World Health Organization is opposed to Covid-19 immunity certification, citing practical, medical and ethical concerns.
England’s $32 billion test and trace system has not made a clear impact on the progress of COVID-19, the British parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said on Wednesday, decrying the “unimaginable” costs of the program.
Six people who have been preparing Royal Caribbean’s newest ship, Odyssey of the Seas, for sea trials have tested positive for the coronavirus.
45 staff from BuzzFeed/HuffPost have been laid off after a $20M loss last year.
Nursing home residents can now receive visitors under most circumstances, after widespread vaccination helped sharply reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths among residents of the facilities
Vaccine packing and shipping priorities have hurt the exporting of apples across the nation.
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and VBI Vaccines Inc. today announced a partnership to develop VBI’s enveloped virus like particle (eVLP) vaccine candidates against SARS-CoV-2 variants, including the B.1.351 variant, also known as 501Y.V2, first identified in South Africa.
Covid-19 Vaccines Targeting Multiple Variants Are in the Works at Moderna, Novavax
The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has kept its Covid death rate lower than most American communities’ — even though Native Americans are almost twice as likely to die from Covid-19 as white people are. In this video, we uncover the secret to the Cherokees’ success. But it’s not exactly rocket science. It’s really just a smart, slow but steady commitment to universal health care. Oh, and a long history of having to be self-reliant when the U.S. government fails to step up and provide support.
100 million doses are coming from Johnson & Johnson – enough to vaccinate the entire US population.
Hawaii is now vaccinating anyone who wants a shot over the age of 16
62 million Americans have now received at least one dose.
Massachusetts Gov. Baker marks one year since signing the Executive Order state of emergency with an emotional moment.
A note on the vaccination card. I had my 1st shot at Walgreen’s and coming up on the 2nd. Reading a comment last week from someone who received a pharmacy shot, she didn’t get a card nor did I. I kept my pharmacy slip. She tried the State site which had no record of her getting vaccinated.
It makes me wonder if the State’s chart is really reflecting the number on one-shots and fully vaccinated.
My understanding is that CVS/Walgreen’s get a separate allotment, thus no vaccination card.
If this is the case, the Dept. of Health needs to include these shots and provide cards to the pharmacies.
I’m taking a wild guess, but I also wonder if what’s happening with pharmacy shots is happening with the city-run sites. Are they included in the DoH’s figures and do they get a CDC card?