We still consider it a volunteer option for people, he said of COVID-19 vaccinations. We are not going to make it a mandatory strategy. We re going to rely on the people in the state of Rhode Island to keep themselves safe and keep the community safe.
But that said, the University of Rhode Island on Tuesday became the latest university to announce that vaccinations would be required for students during the next school year. It doesn t matter when we did this, he said in response to lingering questions about the timing of the mask relief about a week before everyone in the last group of adults to qualify for a vaccination could have reached the two-week mark, after their two shots. There s going to be a phase-in.
Opponents were geared up for battle last year. But the pandemic shut down the legislature.
Now all of the bills crafted by opponents of Rhode Island s Reproductive Privacy Act have been reintroduced and queued up for a House Judiciary hearing on Friday, same time, same place as the annual fight over death with dignity legislation.
Introduced several times before but never passed, the legislation would insulate a physician from any civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for prescribing medication to be self-administered by a patient to hasten death.
Those against abortion tend to oppose assisted suicide under any circumstances, while those who believe in individuals right to make their own health-care decisions take the other side.
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R.I. House wonât meet Tuesday after staff members test positive for COVID-19
Legislators are still scheduled to convene on Thursday at Veterans Memorial Auditorium
By Edward Fitzpatrick Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2021, 11:00 a.m.
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PROVIDENCE â The House of Representatives called off its meeting Tuesday after members of the senior and operational staff tested positive for COVID-19.
âIâm writing to let you know that certain members of the senior and operational staffs tested positive for COVID-19 early last week,â House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi wrote in a message to legislators. âOut of an abundance of caution, we felt it is appropriate to cancel the House session that was planned for this Tuesday, January 19.â
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Gina Raimondo told The Journal in 1992 after learning she had been named a Rhodes Scholar and handed a golden ticket to study at Oxford.
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