COVID-19 pandemic in Rhode Island | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Rhode Island, U.S. |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Arrival date | March 1, 2020 |
Confirmed cases | 414,931 |
Hospitalized cases | 89 |
Critical cases | 5 |
Ventilator cases | 0 |
Deaths | 3,636 |
Fatality rate | 0.88% |
Vaccinations |
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Government website | |
https://ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com/ |
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. state of Rhode Island is part of an ongoing worldwide viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As of August 18, 2022, there has been 414,931 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island, 89 of which are currently hospitalized, and 3,636 reported deaths. Rhode Island's COVID-19 case rate and death rate per capita are the highest and twentieth highest, respectively, of the fifty states since the start of the pandemic. [1] [2]
As of August 3, 2022, 1,072,027 Rhode Islanders have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose (equivalent to over 99% of the state's population) with 901,041 Rhode Islanders completing the primary vaccine series (equivalent to 85.28% of the state's population), and 447,252 Rhode Islanders receiving at least one booster dose (equivalent to 42.33% of the state's population). [3] [4]
As of August 18, 2022, there have been 151,089 breakthrough COVID-19 cases (49.02% of new cases since the beginning of vaccine rollout and 15.25% of vaccinated Rhode Islanders), 3,339 breakthrough hospitalizations (32.92% of new hospitalizations since the beginning of vaccine rollout and 0.34% of vaccinated Rhode Islanders), and 486 breakthrough deaths (33.40% of new deaths since the beginning of vaccine rollout and 0.05% of vaccinated Rhode Islanders). [5]
Municipality [lower-alpha 1] | Cases [lower-alpha 2] | Hosp. | Deaths [lower-alpha 3] [lower-alpha 4] | Pop. | Cases / 100k | Hosp / 100k [lower-alpha 5] | CFR [lower-alpha 6] |
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39 / 39 | 412,179 | 17,699 | 3,636 | 1,056,611 | 39,009.5 | 1,675.1 | 0.88% |
Barrington | 5,218 | 115 | 25 | 16,178 | 32,253.7 | 710.8 | 0.48% |
Bristol | 7,075 | 231 | 86 | 22,234 | 31,820.6 | 1,038.9 | 1.22% |
Burrillville | 5,632 | 189 | 85 | 16,453 | 34,230.8 | 1,148.7 | 1.51% |
Central Falls | 10,198 | 327 | 36 | 19,382 | 52,615.8 | 1,687.1 | 0.35% |
Charlestown | 2,349 | 73 | 6 | 7,780 | 30,192.8 | 938.3 | 0.26% |
Coventry | 12,459 | 491 | 140 | 34,575 | 36,034.7 | 1,420.1 | 1.12% |
Cranston | 33,003 | 1,231 | 222 | 81,196 | 40,646.1 | 1,516.1 | 0.67% |
Cumberland | 12,369 | 430 | 110 | 34,652 | 35,694.9 | 1,240.9 | 0.89% |
East Greenwich | 5,658 | 187 | 39 | 13,073 | 43,280.0 | 1,430.4 | 0.69% |
East Providence | 17,395 | 861 | 251 | 47,449 | 36,660.4 | 1,814.6 | 1.44% |
Exeter | 2,086 | 66 | 11 | 6,782 | 30,757.9 | 973.2 | 0.53% |
Foster | 1,513 | 58 | 11 | 4,689 | 32,267.0 | 1,236.9 | 0.73% |
Glocester | 2,595 | 72 | 10 | 10,062 | 25,790.1 | 715.6 | 0.39% |
Hopkinton | 2,437 | 83 | <5 | 8,111 | 30,045.6 | 1,023.3 | 0.00% |
Jamestown | 1,281 | 29 | <5 | 5,496 | 23,307.9 | 527.7 | 0.00% |
Johnston | 11,887 | 597 | 205 | 29,235 | 40,660.2 | 2,042.1 | 1.72% |
Lincoln | 8,000 | 319 | 95 | 21,644 | 36,961.7 | 1,473.8 | 1.19% |
Little Compton | 666 | 5 | <5 | 3,505 | 19,001.4 | 0.0 | 0.00% |
Middletown | 5,208 | 137 | 27 | 16,078 | 32,392.1 | 852.1 | 0.52% |
Narragansett | 4,505 | 118 | 14 | 15,550 | 28,971.1 | 758.8 | 0.31% |
New Shoreham | 239 | <5 | 0 | 827 | 28,899.6 | 0.0 | 0.00% |
Newport | 7,507 | 206 | 33 | 24,762 | 30,316.6 | 831.9 | 0.44% |
North Kingstown | 9,068 | 274 | 99 | 26,207 | 34,601.4 | 1,045.5 | 1.09% |
North Providence | 12,963 | 603 | 164 | 32,459 | 39,936.5 | 1,857.7 | 1.27% |
North Smithfield | 4,173 | 157 | 77 | 12,349 | 33,792.2 | 1,271.4 | 1.85% |
Pawtucket | 29,883 | 1,170 | 184 | 71,756 | 41,645.3 | 1,630.5 | 0.62% |
Portsmouth | 4,760 | 98 | 19 | 17,418 | 27,328.1 | 562.6 | 0.40% |
Providence | 73,620 | 3,371 | 683 | 179,435 | 41,028.8 | 1,878.7 | 0.93% |
Richmond | 2,145 | 57 | 6 | 7,626 | 28,127.5 | 747.4 | 0.28% |
Scituate | 3,380 | 94 | 13 | 10,603 | 31,877.8 | 886.5 | 0.38% |
Smithfield | 8,459 | 372 | 176 | 21,630 | 39,107.7 | 1,719.8 | 2.08% |
South Kingstown | 8,598 | 225 | 53 | 30,735 | 27,974.6 | 732.1 | 0.62% |
Tiverton | 4,358 | 44 | 17 | 15,816 | 27,554.4 | 278.2 | 0.39% |
Warren | 3,746 | 144 | 68 | 10,488 | 35,717.0 | 1,373.0 | 1.82% |
Warwick | 26,890 | 1,093 | 259 | 81,079 | 33,165.2 | 1,348.1 | 0.96% |
West Greenwich | 2,037 | 53 | 5 | 6,179 | 32,966.5 | 857.7 | 0.25% |
West Warwick | 10,135 | 446 | 80 | 28,955 | 35,002.6 | 1,540.3 | 0.79% |
Westerly | 7,312 | 294 | 53 | 22,624 | 32,319.7 | 1,299.5 | 0.72% |
Woonsocket | 15,573 | 746 | 268 | 41,539 | 37,490.1 | 1,795.9 | 1.72% |
Updated August 22, 2022 Data is publicly reported by Rhode Island Department of Health [6] | |||||||
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County | Cases | Deaths | Fatality rate (%) |
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Bristol County | 17,778 | 193 | 1.09 |
Kent County | 64,423 | 572 | 0.89 |
Newport County | 26,526 | 106 | 0.4 |
Providence County | 278,748 | 2,724 | 0.98 |
Washington County | 43,077 | 272 | 0.63 |
As of June 25,2023 [update] |
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