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![[CREDIT: FDA.gov] Boars Head has recalled all its liverwurst products and listed other deli meats recalled due to deli meat listeria risk.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Boars-Head-deli-meats-recalled-listeria.jpg?strip=all&resize=250%2C188)
PROVIDENCE, RI — The July 26 Boar’s Head deli meat listeria recall has been expanded, prompting the CDC to advise extra care when eating deli meats. Boar’s Head is recalling approximately 7 […]
![[CREDIT: Ezricare] Ezricare Eye Drops have been linked to serious eye and respiratory infections, loss of vision and one death, officials warn.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Ezricare-Eye-Drops-Infection-Warning-140x140.png?strip=all)
PROVIDENCE, RI — The CDC warns EzriCare Artificial Tears sold by Walmart, Amazon and similar retailers has been linked to “extensively drug-resistant” bacterial eye, respiratory and urinary tract infections, sepsis, […]
![[CREDIT: CDC] A new COVID-19 strain, XBB1.5, more contagious and resistant to antibodies, is projected to dominate in RI and the northeast. COVID risk in RI has recently been assessed as medium in all counties.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CDC-COVID-19-closeup-140x140.jpg?strip=all)
PROVIDENCE, RI — All Rhode Island counties’ COVID risk are now considered medium, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports Providence County, the sole RI region with a […]
![[CREDIT: CDC] An image of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Omicron variant tailored vaccines are now available, and the CDC recommends you get one even if you've gotten all the other available shots and boosters.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/COVID-19-140x140.jpg?strip=all)
PROVIDENCE, RI — Kent and Newport Counties’ community levels of COVID-19 infection have decreased from high to medium, leaving Providence County the sole RI region with a high level of […]
![[CREDIT: CDC] The Health Department urges people to get COVID-19 booster shots as soon as they're eligible. The additional shots for vaccinated people are shown to boost your defense against both the Delta variant, and the Omicron variant, which is expected to become the dominant strain in the United States.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/COVID-19-booster-shots-140x140.jpg?strip=all)
WASHINGTON, DC — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has approved the new COVID bivalent booster (protecting against both the original COVID-19 virus and Omicron BA.4 / BA.5) […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — New Omicron BA.4 / BA.5 specific COVID-19 vaccines are now available, and experts recommend you get them this fall, even if your last booster shot was as […]
WASHINGTON, DC — Saturday, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky endorsed the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation for six-month-old COVID-19 vaccinations. The endorsement expands eligibility for vaccination to nearly 20 […]
![[CREDIT: CDC] The CDC has designated Rhode Island a yellow zone. In such areas of relatively low transmission, the CDC is not advising masks indoors in public places.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/RI-COVID-19-CDC-map-Feb.-27-22-140x140.png?strip=all)
PROVIDENCE, RI — On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new guidance on protecting people and neighborhoods from COVID-19, designating all Rhode Island counties as yellow […]
![[CREDIT:CDC] The CDC recommends that 5-11 COVID-19 vaccinations should start ASAP.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-11-COVID-19-Vaccinations-140x140.jpg?strip=all)
ATLANTA, GA — Tuesday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that children get 5-11 COVID-19 Vaccinations, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, ASAP. The FDA […]
![[CREDIT: RI.gov] The CDC advises wearing masks indoors again, as a surge among unvaccinated Americans rolls back progress mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RI-COVID-19-masks-140x140.png?strip=all)
ATLANTA, GA — As the highly-transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 solidifies its dominant status in the U.S. through a surge of cases among mostly unvaccinated people, the Centers for Disease […]
![[CREDIT: CDC] The CDC advises that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks indoors.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Vaccinated-no-masks-required-2-140x140.png?strip=all)
WASHINGTON, DC — If you’re fully vaccinated, masks are no longer required indoors to reduce your risk of catching or spreading COVID-19, the CDC announced Thursday. “Fully vaccinated people no […]
PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is announcing that Rhode Island is pausing administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccine as federal partners continue gathering more information. The […]
![[CREDIT: CDC] This image shows the shape of coronaviruses. Spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona, microscopically. In this view, the protein particles E, S, and M, also located on the outer surface of the particle, have all been labeled.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-CDC-Image-140x140.jpg?strip=all)
PROVIDENCE — When President Joseph Biden uses the Defense Production Act to boost COVID-19 vaccine supplies beyond RI’s 14,000 weekly doses, the state will have $70.4M for testing and vaccine […]
![[CREDIT: CNE] Kent Hospital scored 94 in the 2018 Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Kent-Hospital-140x140.jpg?strip=all)
WARWICK, RI — Kent Hospital’s Women’s Care Unit scored 94 in the 2018 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey, placing […]
WASHINGTON, DC — The full CDC COVID-19 reopening plan guiding businesses and schools on reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic has been shelved by President Donald J. Trump, and U.S. Senator […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — Monday, two days before the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, Rhode Island Hospital closed all but one entrance, stationing masked screeners to […]
![[CREDIT: CDC] The FDA and CDC warned not to eat romaine lettuce from Salinas, CA on Nov. 22, 2019.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/romaine-recall-ecoli-140x140.jpg?strip=all)
ATLANTA, GA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advise people not to eat romaine lettuce harvested from the Salinas, […]
PROVIDENCE, RI – While the DEM weighs which of the next two nights to conduct aerial mosquito pesticide spraying limiting EEE spread, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse urge […]
WASHINGTON, DC — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned customers to steer clear of Honey Smacks Cereal entirely, updated a notice to return boxes of the cereal […]
