RI health care woes continue five years after COVID-19 pandemic

RI health care woes continue five years after COVID-19 pandemic

When Rhode Island announced its first case of COVID-19 on March 1, 2020, nurse Tenah Nimmo-Powell and her colleagues thought the virus was something like the flu, she told The Herald.Just a few months later, Nimmo-Powell and her colleagues were helping move deceased patients outside of the nursing home center where she worked so that they could be picked up by funeral homes. Patients had been "dying back-to-back" that week and "everybody was pan…