12/10/2021: COVID spike in RI

from Newsmakers | WPRI 12 News · host Lee Dooley

This week on Newsmakers: two top physicians at the Lifespan hospital group – Dr. Mitchell Levy, director of critical care medicine, and Dr. Stephen Traub, an emergency medicine physician – discuss Rhode Island’s coronavirus surge and the health care staffing shortage; then, a recap of the latest data on the pandemic locally and Gov. Dan McKee’s response.

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