$8.5 million in relief funds represent the third phase of the Vermont Covid-19 Agriculture Assistance Program On Wednesday, Aug. 19, Governor Phil Scott and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets announced $8.5 million in relief funding has been […]
Category: Covid-19 updates
PPE drive seeking donations for local educators
Revive Church in Poultney is hosting a Safety First PPE Drive to support local educators through September 7th. The new school year is bringing extraordinary need for PPE (personal protection equipment) to comply with COVID 19 safety regulations. “Complicated regulations […]
Hannafords donates $20,000 to support Vermont families and children impacted by Covid-19
Hannaford Supermarkets announced Aug. 13 a $20,000 donation to support Vermont families as they seek to meet the most basic needs for themselves and their children during a period of economic hardship resulting from the coronavirus global health pandemic. […]
Months of Covid-19 could undo decades of population decline
By Anne Wallace Allen/VTDigger A collision of social forces, some related to Covid-19, has prompted a wave of migration into Vermont this year. While nobody knows for sure how many people have moved to the state over the past several months, […]
Vermonters struggle to get Covid-19 test despite claims of availability
By Katie Jickling When Elise Shanbacker recently came down with head cold symptoms, she decided to get a Covid test — just in case. Easier said than done. All of the Vermont Department of Health 26 scheduled pop-up testing sites for the […]
Robust tick season collides with Covid and the Flu
RUTLAND — “My colleagues who work in the emergency department have been doing Covid and Lyme disease testing side by side,” said Dr. Lisa Graves-Austin. “We are seeing more positives for Lyme disease than Covid.” Lyme disease is quite prevalent in […]
When students return to school, some educators say: why not head outside?
By Lola Duffort/VTDigger Before Covid-19 arrived in Vermont, middle school students in Bethel would start their days sitting in a circle in their advisory groups, with agenda projected on a screen. Owen Bradley, the principal at the White River Valley School, […]
Pandemic gives rise to a plethora of puppies
By Virginia Dean Covid-19 has laid bare significant and unexpected economic, social, and political disruption. It has caused widespread increases in morbidity and mortality, for example, in addition to individual behavioral changes including fear-induced aversion to workplaces and other public […]
Masks required Aug. 1 by state mandate
Governor Phil Scott, Friday, July 24, announced a state mandated mask requirement in public places—inside and outside. “Based on national and regional data on how the virus is spreading – and rather than waiting like other states have – I […]
Scott mandates masks in public starting Aug. 1
Gov. Phil Scott on Friday issued an order requiring people in Vermont to cover their faces when out in public, saying that while Vermont’s Covid-19 infection rate is still among the lowest in the country, a rise in cases elsewhere […]