18 New COVID-19 RI Deaths for Highest One Day Total - May 3 Predicted for Peak Hospitalizations

18 New COVID-19 RI Deaths for Highest One Day Total - May 3 Predicted for Peak Hospitalizations

Rhode Island announced on Thursday 18 coronavirus-related deaths in the past day -- the highest one day total to date in the state. 

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The announcement puts Rhode Island over 100 fatalities with 105. On Thursday, the state announced 309 new COVID-19 cases for a total of 3,838.

There are 245 current hospitalizations with 61 in the ICU. 

See the latest data here. 

On Thursday, Raimondo announced she is holding off on any schools-related updates for another week. 

Raimondo Releases Data

"I thought today I would give you an update on our modeling effort," said Raimondo. "For the past 6 weeks we’ve been hard at work gathering data. It’s not a perfect model. We’ve only been at this for a few weeks, really."

"The blue line is our best guess [and] assumes all of our current restrictions are in place and we’re going a pretty good job," said Raimondo. 

"We think our peak will be around May 3 — we’ll need around 2,250 hospital beds," said Raimondo. 

"The red line is what we think could happen if we don't take social distancing [more seriously] -- we'll need more than 4,300 hospital beds," she added. "I don't think we're going to be there."