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Remember no toilet paper? Second round of COVID shortages less severe.
They re not as panic-inducing as the paper-towel shortage of 2020, but supply-chain disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic are still keeping goods off store shelves, even as Rhode Island joins other states in lifting virtually all COVID restrictions affecting businesses. COVID was a tsunami for all grocers, said Susan Budlong, a spokeswoman for Dave s Fresh Marketplace, a Rhode Island chain of grocery stores. COVID was a force to be reckoned with. It hurt people. It scared people. It shook people to the core.
But, Budlong said, the severe shortages of the early days of the pandemic are gone, with only sporadic shortages of products now.
The great unmasking is about to begin.
Following Thursday s surprise Biden administration recommendation that fully vaccinated Americans can go out in public safely without face masks, Gov. Dan McKee on Friday said the state would soon follow suit.
Starting Tuesday, fully vaccinated Rhode Islanders those two weeks past their final dose will no longer be required to cover their faces or observe social distance, indoors or outdoors, in most situations.
One exception is schools, where the CDC is still recommending students remained masked. McKee on Friday appeared to say teens can go maskless in school when fully vaccinated, but his office later clarified that the mask order will remain in effect for schools.