[Summit] Internet!!
Wendy Ismaili
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> On Apr 30, 2020, at 4:55 PM, Anna Kuperman <annakuperman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> I’m a teacher and Zooming and I have two kids also Zooming. My internet stinks. We only have internet, no cable, no game system. But we have three laptops, three iPhone devices and probably another iPad sometimes and Alexa. I have Cox. Any ideas for the best way forward?
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>> 1. Gov. Raimondo's newsletter & video (from Tuesday) -- Health
>> Care & Health Care Coverage [Covid News no. 176] (David Kolsky)
>> 2. Cultural Diversions -- Updates from RISD and Trinity Rep
>> [Covid News no. 177] (David Kolsky)
>> 3. The Geography of the Pandemic In Rhode Island & Massachusetts
>> [Covid News no. 178] (David Kolsky)
>> 4. Budgetary woes in RI & Remdesivir hopes in Mass. (Boston
>> Globe newsletters) [Covid News no. 179] (David Kolsky)
>> 5. Fw: WPRI.com Daily Roundup // the Future of Pot-au-Feu &
>> Portsmouth couple's battle with COVID-19 [Covid News no. 180]
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>> 6. State Press Release about Wednesday's Briefing -- Limit on
>> Large Events, Health Insurance Deadline & Latest Numbers [Covid
>> News no. 181] (David Kolsky)
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>> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:30:24 +0000 (UTC)
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>> To: WSNA <waylandsquareneighbors at gmail.com>, Wayland Square
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>> Subject: [Summit] Gov. Raimondo's newsletter & video (from Tuesday) --
>> Health Care & Health Care Coverage [Covid News no. 176]
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>> Another relatively-simple explanation (from Tuesday?s press briefing, not today?s) of the Governor?s orders about relaxing (at least for the moment) some restrictions about credentials and the need for prior authorizations, as well as limiting health insurers? discretion over granting or denying coverage for various procedures (such as testing, mental health and TeleHealth).
>> For those who want and can understand the full specialised details, the full text of the relevant Executive Order (20-29) can be found here in PDF:
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>> ? Note that the chart embedded in the newsletter is from yesterday?s press briefing; newer numbers will appear this afternoon.
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>> As we continue to combat COVID-19 here in Rhode Island, we must do everything we can to support our health care providers who are working around the clock under extraordinary circumstances. The last thing they need right now is to be dealing with burdensome regulations, and we need to make sure they have the flexibility to get paid without hassle. At the same time, many patients are worried that they?ll lose access to critical medications or services. That's unacceptable.
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>> - Medications:?Your out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions will not increase, and the medicine you take will not be dropped from coverage. Insures?cannot?make changes to what drugs are covered unless the changes benefit the patients.?
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>> - Prior Authorization: We have to ensure that patients in need of care can get it quickly and without anxiety about who is going to pay. Healthcare should not be delayed because of a need to get prior approval from a patient?s insurer. So I?ve order that in-patient hospital and rehabilitation, long-term care and telemedicine?in-network services not be suspended?because someone doesn?t have prior authorization. In addition, there will be?no prior authorization needed for testing or treatment of COVID-19.?
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>> - Behavioral Health Care:?Being able to seek mental and behavioral health care is just as important as physical health care. We have to make sure Rhode Islanders are able to deal with challenges like anxiety, depression and substance-use disorders as we?re coping with this crisis. As a result of this order, no?referrals or other benefit review approvals will be needed?for a patient to access needed mental and behavioral health care.?
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>> RISD makers are helping to address the nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment. Locally, RISD has been able to collect and donate masks and safety glasses. In addition, staff, faculty and students have been working on producing masks, filters and other items to assist the Rhode Island Department of Health.? A group of RISD graduate students are creating mask making kits that will be distributed to fellow graduate students living in Providence. Each kit includes a pattern and supplies for making ten masks. Once completed the masks will be distributed to Rhode Island hospitals.?
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>> Even though the RISD Museum is closed to in-person visitors, it is committed to continued connection with the community. To support K-12 schools in Providence and beyond during distance learning, the museum is offering activities, prompts and guides for young children, teens, parents, caregivers, and educators. For example, museum education staff is working with teachers to develop plans for virtual classroom connections and hosting virtual visits to the museum over Zoom. For teens and families Art & Design Lab is a weekly virtual social meet-up? and See & Sketch is an intergenerational online program that explores art using close examination, discussion and hands-on making using common household materials.?Visit the museum?s website for more information.
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>> Subject: [Summit] The Geography of the Pandemic In Rhode Island &
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>> The ?Rhode Map? below is actually a Monday one that got diverted into my Spam folder until I noticed and retrieved it today. Wednesday?s (about the pandemic?s and shutdown?s effects on the state budget) will come later.
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>> ICYMI:?Rhode?Island was up to 7,439 confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday, and 226 residents had died. There were 258 people in the hospital, 78 in intensive care, and 53 were on ventilators. We also know that 433 people have been discharged from the hospital.
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>> ? This week's Ocean State Innovators is a Q&A with?Steven Medeiros, owner of Sound FX, a car audio company that is now making face shields to protect against the coronavirus. Have an idea for someone Ed Fitzpatrick should talk to for his weekly interview? E-mail him at?edward.fitzpatrick at globe.com.
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>> ??Joe Biden is known for backslapping and handshaking retail politics, but the coronavirus has forced him to learn to connect with voters ? and just as importantly raise money ? in virtual spaces at a time when businesses are shuttering, the ranks of the unemployed are surging, and families are bracing for an uncertain future.
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>> ? Rhode Island?s distance learning program gets a shoutout from the Globe?s editorial board, which is urging Massachusetts educators to do more to prevent students from falling behind while they?re not in class.
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>> ? Brown University President Christina Paxson wrote an op-ed for the New York Times calling for the reopening of college and university campuses in the fall to be a national priority.
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>> ? In an op-ed for the Globe, Chas Walker, a longtime union organizer in Rhode Island who now lives in Massachusetts, writes that poverty wages in nursing homes have accelerated the coronavirus outbreak.
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>> Good day. It's Wednesday, April 29, the 120th day of the year. It's Yom Ha'atzmaut on the Jewish calendar, the celebration of Israel's declaration of independence in 1948. Sunrise in Boston was at 5:41 a.m. and sunset will be at 7:42 p.m., for 14 hours and 1 minute of sunlight. The more sunlight the better, I say. The waxing moon is 39 percent full.
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>> This remdesivir study still has to be submitted to peer review journals, but Fauci believes it could be "opening the door to treating" the coronavirus. From your lips to God's ears, doc.
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>> Another signpost:?The coronavirus has killed more Americans in 12 weeks -- 59,446 people -- than were killed in 20 years?of the Vietnam War:?58,220.
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>> Total confirmed deaths: 59,446 (it was 57,533?yesterday)
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>> Those figures, of course, don't capture the utter despair of frontline medical workers who are witnessing more deaths daily than some can handle. The suicides of two health care workers -- Manhattan emergency room doctor?Lorna Breen?and a?rookie Bronx EMT,?John Mondello,?illustrate another tragic toll being exacted by this deadly virus.
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>> So Trump is forcing meat-processing plants to stay open?and forcing?employees, who work in close proximity,?to go to work, even though as of yesterday, more than 4,400 workers or their family members?have been infected with the virus?at 80 meatpacking plants in 26 states, and at least?18 workers at 9 plants in 9 states have died.
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>> Meanwhile in New York,?Governor?Andrew Cuomo?today ordered the MTA to scrub and sanitize subway cars every night after?the New York Post reported?that the subway "has become a filthy, deadly homeless shelter on rails," as shown by photos and videos taken by disgusted transit workers.
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>> Finally,?we began with some hope, so let's end with The Hope: Today not only is the commemoration of Israel's independence declaration; it's also the?anniversary of the day in 1945 that US troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau outside Munich.
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>> One of those rescued was?Abba Naor,?the youngest survivor at age 17 who had spent four years in the camp. The Lithuanian native soon moved to Israel, fought in the army, worked in intelligence, and gave lectures in Germany to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive.
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>> PORTSMOUTH?R.I. (WPRI) ? Caroline and Don Kaull are high school sweethearts who have been together for 60 years.They've had children and grandchildren, but did not expect life to throw a deadly virus at them.The couple, both in their mid-70s, tells Eyewitness News they tested positive for COVID-19 in March after traveling with the University of Rhode Island (URI) basketball team, which Don is a radio analyst for."I had traveled with him to both of those games in the Bronx and UMass, so we both probably went to the worst places we could go that week and we didn't know it at the time," Caroline said.On March 13, Don said he woke up with a 102-degree fever and body aches. He said the following days were even worse."Extreme fatigue and then the weird ones of losing my sense of smell and taste, but the fatigue one was the worst for me because I'd sleep all day long," Don said.Caroline started experiencing symptoms shortly thereafter, but said she was more concerned about her husband's li
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>> Governor Gina M. Raimondo and Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH, the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) provided updates on Rhode Island's response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) today.
>> ? Large events: While public health guidance around the exact number of people allowed to gather will change in the coming months, the Governor today made clear that it is highly unlikely that groups of more than 50 people will be able to gather at any point this summer. She recommended that anyone planning an event with more than 50 people through the summer cancel, postpone, or find a way to celebrate virtually instead.?? HealthSourceRI: Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for coverage as part of HealthSourceRI's special enrollment period. However, anyone who has recently gone through a "qualifying life event," including losing a job, will always have a 60 day window from the date of the qualifying event in which they can seek new coverage. To learn more, go to HealthSourceRI.com.COVID-19 Data Update Rhode Island has 321 new cases of COVID-19. This brings Rhode Island's count to 8,247.?RIDOH also announced 12 additional COVID-19 associated fatalities. Rhode Island's number of COVID
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