15 COVID Deaths in Rhode Island in Past 4 Days - Now Over 2,800 Lives Lost
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The Rhode Island Department of Health announced Monday that the number of COVID-related deaths has jumped to 2,802 — an increase of 15 in just the past four days of reporting.
In August there were 30 COVID deaths total in Rhode Island.
The other sobering news was that Rhode Island’s transmission rate per 100,000 in a 7-day period has jumped to 208.1.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTLast September, Governor Gina Raimondo ordered in-classroom learning at K-12 closed in communities of more than 100 infections per 100,000 — half of RI’s rate now.
Rhode Island has dropped to 7th in the country for death per 1 million residents and now ranks 5th per capita.
The only good news is the number of Rhode Islanders hospitalized has dropped to 109.
Former RI Director of Health Dr. Michael Fine joins GoLocal LIVE Tuesday at 1:30 PM.
Schools and Children
There are growing concerns that the transmission rate will continue to increase as RI schools reopen.
As GoLocal reported last week, the Rhode Island Department of Health confirmed to GoLocal that since the beginning of the pandemic three children have died with COVID. The agency said, "COVID-19 was not determined to be the primary cause of death in any of these instances."
The Delta variant is going after the unvaccinated with a merciless vengeance. Children under age 12 and other young people who have not been vaccinated are bearing an increasingly larger share of infections. The numbers will understandably show a greater proportion of infections in the unvaccinated compared with vaccinated, but Rhode Island’s children might be faring even worse than the dismal national figures.
A recent study by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shows Rhode Island to have the third-highest per capita rate of all states for COVID infections in children.
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