The coronavirus is sweeping through nursing homes and senior living centers across the country. In Rhode Island, over half of all deaths related to COVID-19 are among people living in nursing homes or senior living centers. Our team of reporters wants to hear from staff, patients and families at nursing homes and senior living centers […]
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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COVID-19 screenings missing symptom: Lost sense of smell
The loss of smell, or anosmia, is now being recognized by physicians around the globe as one of the telltale signs of COVID-19. But it’s not included in the state Health Department’s screening criteria to be tested.
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Two More R.I. Residents Have Died, 77 More Test Positive For COVID-19
Two more Rhode Island residents have died and 77 more people have tested positive for the coronavirus as the state closes in on efforts to double its testing capacity.
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Questions About The Coronavirus? Here’s What We Know.
Coronavirus cases are rising, and the response is changing the way we live our lives in Rhode Island and beyond. Questions about the virus? Here’s what we know:
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RI Reports First Two Deaths From The Coronavirus; Governor Issues Stay-At-Home Order
Governor Gina Raimondo bans gatherings of more than five people and issues a stay-at-home order in an effort to contain the coronavirus, which has claimed the lives of two residents.
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A Rhode Island Doctor In Quarantine Tends To Her Patients
A primary care doctor is among the roughly 2,500 people in Rhode Island who have been instructed to self-quarantine because of exposure to the coronavirus.
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Rhode Island Braces For Surge In COVID-19 Patients
Rhode Island is bracing for a potentially severe shortage of hospital beds, ventilators and staff to care for critically ill patients.
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Efforts To Test For COVID-19 Ramp Up, But Supplies Still Limited
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that any American with a doctor’s note can now be tested for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. But in Rhode Island, so far state health officials have only tested about 45 people. To find out why, health reporter Lynn Arditi spoke with Dr. […]
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200 Rhode Island Residents Asked To Self-Quarantine, In Effort To Contain Coronavirus
About 200 Rhode Island residents who have had direct contact with people infected with the novel coronavirus have been asked to quarantine themselves at home, state health officials said in a statement. The self-quarantine comes after three people who went on a school trip to Italy in mid-February with St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket tested […]
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The Public’s Radio Wins Prestigious Scripps Howard Award for “A 911 Emergency”
The Public’s Radio has been selected as a winner of a prestigious Scripps Howard Award in the Radio/Podcast category for “A 911 Emergency”, a series produced with ProPublica on problems in the state’s 911 system that may be costing lives.
