On the lookout for the newest on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Rhode Island? Right here’s a take a look at the whole % constructive per week, new hospital admissions per week, new circumstances per 100,000 inhabitants by week, complete constructive circumstances/fatalities/checks, and extra.
Replace – As of April 20, 2022, the Rhode Island Division of Well being (RIDOH) will probably be shifting away from reporting % constructive of their COVID-19 information hub.
“At prior factors within the pandemic, when the State was overseeing the overwhelming majority of testing in Rhode Island, % constructive was a really significant metric,” Joseph Wendelken, Public Info Officer for RIDOH tells What’sUpNewp. “Nonetheless, as a part of Rhode Island’s shift towards an endemic response to COVID-19, rather more testing is going on in conventional healthcare settings, and at-home checks have change into the choice of selection for a lot of Rhode Islanders. As a result of these checks don’t all get reported to the State, our % constructive information is now a lot tougher to interpret. Moreover, a number of weeks in the past we made a shift to focus our State testing websites on symptomatic individuals. This makes it very laborious to check % constructive information now to % constructive at prior factors within the pandemic, when many asymptomatic individuals have been doing routine testing at State websites”.
RIDOH updates this coronavirus (COVID-19), information tracker, Monday by Friday by roughly 3 pm. The weekly charts included inside are up to date on Tuesdays.
