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Rhode Island is about to get stimulus money from the federal government. How should it be spent?
We ask some of Rhode Islandâs officials and thought leaders how they think the money would best be put to use
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated March 8, 2021, 6:20 p.m.
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Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Dan McKee, behind podium at center, speaks before a socially-distanced audience, below, while delivering his inaugural address during a ceremonial inauguration ceremony, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in front of the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I.Steven Senne/Associated Press
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Published March 9, 2021, 4:54 PM
Even the contact tracing czar himself is “frustrated” with the country’s contact tracing system.
Baguio City mayor and appointed contact tracing head Benjamin Magalong lamented on Tuesday, March 9, the confusion and delay over the use of contact tracing applications to help track close contacts of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong (JJ Landingin / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
At the House Committee on Health’s hearing on the resolution calling for a “unified national contact tracing protocol”, Magalong said that he was “suprised” that national government agencies and local government units (LGUs) are using different applications for their contact tracing efforts.
John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Monrovia, Liberia
Members of the House of Representatives have unanimously voted, without any abstention, to mandate its Committee on Health to Investigate the alleged acute shortage of essential drugs at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center Liberia’s largest referral hospital.
The House’s decision followed a communication from Grand Bassa County Electoral District #5 Representative Thomas Goshua, who has alarmed over the lack of drugs (medicines) at JFK Hospital, which he argued depicts a deteriorating condition of Liberia’s health system.
Rep. Thomas Goshua of Grand Bassa County District #5
The Grand Bassa County lawmaker also frowned on the difficulties Liberians go through in seeking medication at the JFK Hospital and other health facilities.
Published March 6, 2021, 4:18 PM
Former Speaker and Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano is calling for a “thorough and fair” investigation into reports that government officials, including a colleague in the House of Representatives, who allegedly violated the prioritizatization mechanism in the vaccination program for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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In a media interview on Thursday, March 4, Cayetano appealed to his fellow government officials to respect the vaccination prioritization listing for COVID-19 inoculation, stressing that there should be no “VIPs” in the COVID 19 pandemic.
Cayetano lamented that as reports indicated that VIP’s were able to go ahead of others in the priority list, local government units are still not assured access to COVID-19.