Rhode Island health officials said the state is not receiving enough supply of the COVID-19 vaccine to meet President Joseph Biden’s goal of making all adults eligible to be vaccinated by May. Concerns about Rhode Island’s ability to meet the president’s goal are based on the state’s projected supply and current demand presented during a […]
Lynn Arditi
Lynn joined The Public's Radio as health reporter in 2017 after more than three decades as a journalist, including 28 years at The Providence Journal. Her series "A 911 Emergency," a project of the 2019 ProPublica Local Reporting Network, won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award in the radio/podcast category in 2020.
A native of New York City, she graduated from Oberlin College and landed her first journalism job at The Center for Investigative Reporting (now known as Reveal) in Washington, D.C., where she did story development for 60 Minutes. When the T.V. market imploded in 1987, the D.C. office of CIR closed and within a year she moved to Massachusetts to take a reporting job at the former Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, a small daily newspaper.
A year later, she moved to Providence, R.I. to work at The Providence Journal. There, she worked for several years as a bureau reporter covering schools and local issues, before she began covering statewide beats including higher education, the economy, housing and health care. During those years, she also honed her skills in narrative journalism, and served as chairwoman of the newspaper’s writing committee. Her work has been recognized by New England Associated Press News Executives Association and the Society of American Business Editors & Writers.
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Rhode Islanders 60 to 64 years old and those 16 and older with underlying medical conditions now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine
Rhode Islanders who are 60 to 64 years of age and those 16 and older with specific underlying health conditions will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine starting Friday. Rhode Island residents ages 16 to 64 are eligible to be vaccinated if they have medical conditions — such as type 1or type 2 diabetes; lung […]
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A conversation about vaccine equity with Rhode Island’s health director
In Rhode Island, Latinos account for 16% of the population and 30% of coronavirus cases. But just 6% of vaccine doses have gone to Latino residents. Similarly, Black residents have lower rates of vaccination than white residents. Rhode Island’s health director, Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, spoke with The Public’s Radio health reporter Lynn Arditi about the […]
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Vaccine Inequities: Hundreds of people from across Rhode Island sign up for COVID-19 shots meant for residents in hard-hit neighborhoods
Inside a storefront health clinic in a Price Rite shopping plaza in Providence, the regulars are mostly immigrants who speak Spanish, Portuguese and Creole. They work cleaning offices, washing cars and fileting fish in grocery stores. And nearly one in four of the patients last month tested positive for the coronavirus, said Dr. Annie De […]
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Lifespan, Care New England sign merger deal to create an academic health system with Brown University
Lifespan and Care New England have signed a merger agreement to create one academic health system with Brown University, the companies announced Tuesday. The long-anticipated deal between Rhode Island’s two largest hospital networks includes a five-year $125 million investment from Brown, which operates the state’s only medical school. Brown will join the governing board and […]
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Rhode Islanders 65 and older can register for COVID-19 vaccinations starting Monday
The new state-run sites will be able to vaccinate “hundreds” of people an hour, state health officials said, and increase the pace of vaccinations.
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A drive to vaccinate in hard-hit Central Falls, R.I.
Since Rhode Island’s first community vaccination drive began in Central Falls, about 15% of the city’s residents have received their first doses of vaccine. That’s compared with 9% of residents statewide.
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R.I. opens new vaccination sites in Providence and Cranston for residents 75 and older starting Feb. 18
Rhode Island eases COVID-19 restrictions on bars starting Valentine’s Day weekend
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How Rhode Island’s Emergency 911 System Failed Baby Alijah
Rhode Island 911 telecommunicators rarely instruct callers in CPR, doctors and EMS officials say. Better training could save hundreds more cardiac arrest victims per year, experts say.
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What’s the holdup? A look at Rhode Island’s vaccination effort
Rhode Island’s use of its COVID-19 vaccine supply ranks among the slowest in the country, according to an analysis by The New York Times. In part to help speed the pace of vaccinations, state health officials recently began moving older residents to the front of the line. Rhode Island is the last state to begin […]
