PROVIDENCE What next?
Rhode Island pols have started to queue up for potential appointment by Lieutenant Gov. Dan McKee of his own replacement, when Governor Gina Raimondo s anticipated mid- after resignation elevates him to the top spot.
On Thursday, President-elect Joseph Biden announced his choice of Raimondo for his commerce secretary, subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
By Friday morning, Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, former state Sen. Donna Nesselbush and Lisa Ranglin, the head of the R.I. Black Business Association, had added their names to a mix of candidates for lieutenant governor that already included Sen. Louis DiPalma and former Central Falls Mayor James Diossa.
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Dr. Jack Ullrich (right), a general surgeon at Ivinson Memorial Hospital, provides instruction to Sierra Levene, a first-year WWAMI student from Laramie, on how to begin and complete a suturing procedure on a chicken thigh. The same tools and techniques would be used to apply stitches to a wound in the human body or during a surgical procedure.Â
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Anthony Menghini (left), a second-year WWAMI student from Cheyenne, looks on while Dr. Mark McKenna, a physician at Premier Bone and Joint Centers, assists second-year WWAMI student Amanda Galambas, from Gillette, with her newly minted arm cast. Dr. Tim Gueramy (right), a physician at Premier Bone & Joint Centers, observes the procedure.Â
Gov. Gina Raimondo tested negative again Sunday for COVID-19, she announced.
“I am fortunate to be feeling great and will continue working from home during my self-quarantine,” Raimondo said in a Twitter message early Sunday afternoon.
Alexander-Scott doesn’t have any symptoms, the state said Sunday. She tested positive during routine screening.
Raimondo, assuming she continues to test negative, will only have to quarantine for seven days, taking her to Thursday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently shortened its guidance for quarantines from two weeks, and Rhode Island followed suit.
Stefan Pryor, the state’s secretary of commerce; Josh Block, the governor’s spokesman; and Dr. Philip Chan, consulting medical director for the Health Department are also quarantining. Chan has been a leading voice in the state s vaccination efforts.