re: #74 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

One isn’t like the others. What’s up with Rhode Island?

No one really knows. Here’s Boston Globe article suggesting some of it might be an artifact of testing at colleges:

Some of the increase can be attributed to increased testing, especially at the Rhode Island colleges and universities experiencing outbreaks. In August, for example, there were an average of 5,228 tests conducted per day. That rose to an average of 8,294 in September, and as of Monday, the October average is 10,053 tests per day.

That said, I think a lot of it was fueled by colleges. Providence College had a major outbreak.

The number of cases of COVID-19 at Providence College has risen to 205.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, 1,598 students were tested, with 36 positive cases and a positivity rate of 2.2%.

Gov. Gina Raimondo on Wednesday blamed “incredibly selfish” PC students heading from party to party without wearing masks for Rhode Island landing on the list of states whose residents cannot travel to Connecticut, New York and New Jersey without quarantining for 14 days upon their arrival.