(Undated) -- A new article from The New York Times is putting the Ocean State in an unflattering spotlight regarding the coronavirus pandemic. "How Rhode Island fell" to the pandemic is the headline the newspaper ran over the weekend. The report says things got bad in RI in the fall, and that by December, it earned the distinction of having more cases and deaths per one-hundred-thousand people than any other state; the case rate still puts Rhode Island among the top five states. The NYT report cites the state's population density, second-highest in the country, for causing the spike. Rhode Island's virus death toll as of Friday was over 25-hundred.