Should Rhode Island businesses offer employees on-site COVID-19 tests?
WORKPLACE TESTING: Rhode Island health officials are encouraging employers to offer rapid on-site COVID-19 testing that employees can administer themselves. AP PHOTO/NARDUS ENGELBRECHT The state has begun distributing rapid COVID-19 tests to employers, in an effort to ramp up to 25,000 tests a day statewide. Manufacturers are among the businesses already offering them. Workers use the kits to take the tests themselves before entering the workplace. Results are available in as little as 15 minutes. The testing cost…
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R.I. health officials stress need for more vaccine doses
Updated on Feb. 2.
CASES OF COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 698 on Wednesday. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDENCE – State health officials on Thursday said that Rhode Island is going at a “good pace” regarding administering the COVID-19 vaccinations to the community, they reiterated that Rhode Island still does not currently have enough vaccines to administer doses to all within the high-risk and older populations. Dr. Philip Chan, infectious disease physician from…
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So if i understand Dr. Chan…..” (para) there’s just too many people over 65 for the supply we’re getting so we won’t bother starting with that group… it’s too hard, it’s much easier to complain about the supply instead and give out the doses to healthy young “essential” people”……Really? Seems to me that if all
Five Questions With: Bob Samuels
BOB SAMUELS, Rhode Island School of Design’s executive director of integrated health and wellness, said the school offers counseling and psychological services to both individuals and groups for remote sessions during periods of high stress. / COURTESY JO SITTENFELD Bob Samuels is Rhode Island School of Design’s executive director of integrated health and wellness. He spoke with Providence Business News about how the school is keeping students healthy through the pandemic and his optimism for the upcoming year. PBN: In addition to keeping students healthy through COVID-19, how is RISD using integrated health and…
Cross-border differences in sales-tax policy create headaches
SOME OBSERVERS say the differences in sales-tax policies among the states create a burden on retailers that have to navigate the varied tax requirements when they do business in other states. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO The rise of interstate e-commerce is magnifying long-standing differences in sales-tax laws among various states, forcing retailers with far-flung customers to adhere to 50 sets of nuanced requirements and leaving consumers unaware that they might be paying a higher tax. Take, for example, a $1,000 TV on sale at Best Buy in Rhode Island. If…
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Five Questions With: Jennifer Hawkins
JENNIFER HAWKINS is the executive director of ONE Neighborhood Builders. / COURTESY JENNIFER HAWKINS Jennifer Hawkins, the executive director of ONE Neighborhood Builders, a community-development organization in Providence, spoke to Providence Business News recently about the Central Providence Opportunities initiative. Announced in December, the initiative will focus on investments in two ZIP codes of Providence and is funded by an $8 million grant provided by Blue Meridian Partners, a…
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