NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Ashih Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public health, about revised guidelines for asymptomatic people who test positive for COVID-19.
Rhode Island News
Supervised drug consumption sites to come to R.I., exhibit opens to public to show how centers will work
Rhode Island is the first state to authorize these sites, aimed to help prevent overdoses.
July 23, 2021 7:21 pm
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE)- With Rhode Island becoming the first state in the country to authorize a 2-year-pilot program to establish supervised drug consumption sites, or overdose prevention sites; there’s now a mock exhibit in Providence to show residents how these centers will operate.
The exhibit is a collaboration between RICARES and the Brown University School of Public Health- located on 133 Mathewson Street in Providence.
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Advertisement I don t think it s people hesitating or not wanting to get it. It s hard to get this stuff, two shots in a row, Ashish Jha, a physician at the Brown University School of Public
Health, said in a Tuesday teleconference. And so we ve got to be patient, and we ve got to give people more opportunities to come back and complete their second shot.
One man had difficulty scheduling a 2nd-dose appointment
Octavio Venegas told Insider his 89-year-old mother, Gladys, missed her second vaccine appointment because she was hospitalized after having a stroke and needing to treat an ulcer.
Venegas said his mother, a patient with advanced Alzheimer s, received her first