COVID Numbers Are Beginning to Rise in Rhode Island
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
It is the news that no one wants to hear.
COVID cases are beginning to climb in Rhode Island. The transmission rate has doubled over the past three weeks from hovering at just under 100 cases per 100,000 residents over a seven-day period to Monday’s rate of 190.6.
The percentage rate of those tested at state facilities has jumped to 7.8%, but on just 1.492 tests. Many Rhode Islanders are using home testing and those would not be reported in the state's numbers.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTABC News reports, "Rhode Island currently has the highest seven-day case rate at 172.4 cases per 100,000 people. This is nearly three times higher than the national rate of 59.4 cases per 100,000 people. As of Friday, the Ocean State has also seen its average daily number of cases increase 53% over a two-week period from 170 per day to 260 per day, CDC data shows."
The good news is that hospitalizations remain relatively low at 42, but remember hospitalizations generally rise approximately two weeks after cases.
To date, 3,527 Rhode Islanders have died of COVID. RIDOH reported on Monday two additional deaths.'
Philadelphia Re-Mandating Masking
Now, one U.S. city has brought masking back.
The New York Times reports, "With new coronavirus cases low but rising sharply in recent days, the city of Philadelphia announced on Monday that it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate a little more than a month after lifting it, becoming the first major U.S. city to do so.
“This is our chance to get ahead of the pandemic,” said Cheryl Bettigole, the city’s health commissioner, at a news conference. "She acknowledged that the average number of daily new cases, currently at 142, is still nowhere near what it was at the beginning of the year, when the Omicron variant was pushing the seven-day average to nearly 4,000," according to the Times.
Vaccination Clinics -- McKee Encouraging More Boosting
The McKee Administration on Monday announced the community-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled for the week ahead.
Community-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held around Rhode Island. Registration is recommended for these clinics. To register, visit C19VaccineRI.org and click “Upcoming Community Vaccination Clinics.”
In addition, the COVID-19 vaccine and booster doses are available in many healthcare providers’ offices and pharmacies throughout Rhode Island. More information about COVID-19 vaccination locations can be found at C19VaccineRI.org.
39.8 percent of Rhode Islanders have received a booster dose.
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