It is the same sensation as hearing a friend has won the lottery. It is the same sensation as being the unmarried bridesmaid sister at your sister’s wedding.

I have recently been helping friends in another state meet the legal requirements to get Covid-19 vaccinations. was not eligible for vaccination but am overjoyed my friends will now be safe.

The official Rhode Island vaccination program lists priority occupations and  situations when vaccinations occur.  The timetable for inoculations is publicly available.

The question I have is why the distribution of the vaccine has in other states gone to phase two and three inoculation criteria, but Rhode Island is still in phase one.

Gentle reader; we need to ask both our State and Federal elected representatives why this state is so far behind the rest of the country in getting the vaccines. We need to know if there have been exceptions made in the distribution of the vaccine and what and why there exists these exceptions.

But most of all we need to determine why Rhode Island is so poorly represented in the vaccine distribution. Our elected representatives will know.

My Aunty Betty, to me, has the same value as some other person’s aunty in another state that has allowed that aunt to be vaccinated. 

Noel Hewitt
Bristol