Experts are holding their breath By Erin Petenko/ VTDigger Timothy Plante likens Vermont’s day-to-day Covid-19 data now to the very first days of the virus’s arrival in March 2020. At the time, little was known about the progress of the […]
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As cases decline, Vermont to end pricey contact tracing
By Liora Engel-Smith/VTDigger The state is moving away from third-party contact tracing as Omicron cases continue to drop in Vermont. Last spring, the Vermont Department of Health outsourced the bulk of Covid-19 contact tracing to AM Trace, a contractor in Leesburg, […]
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Pandemic far from over at hospitals, including RRMC
By Katy Savage While Covid restrictions are easing and a sense of normalcy is returning, hospitals are far away from “normal.” “We still have patients in the hospital, we still have patients in the ICU that have Covid,” said Rick […]
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State reflects on two-year pandemic
By Polly Mikula “If we look back two years to March 13, when I signed the emergency declaration here in Vermont, I never expected that it would last two years, not just the state of emergency, but I didn’t think […]
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State admits Covid case counts are now a poor indicator of Covid rates
With rapid testing results mostly unknown, hospitalization and death rates are better barometers By Polly Mikula Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine presented the weekly modeling of Covid-19 in Vermont at the weekly press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 22. The charts showed […]
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As Omicron recedes, experts warn against a premature shift
By Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Recent trends in Vermont’s Covid-19 case counts have officials and experts feeling optimistic about the course of the pandemic — but all warn it would be premature to brush off the Omicron threat just yet. As of […]
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New Covid-19 subvariant has been detected in Vt
By Erin Petenko/VTDigger A new subvariant of the now-dominant Omicron strain was detected in Vermont last week as part of genomic sequencing, the Department of Health reported Friday, Jan. 28. The Broad Institute identified the subvariant in a sample sent […]
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Covid cases begin to decline, hospitalizations remain high
Staff report Covid-19 cases remain elevated in Vermont, with the daily number of new infections averaging 1,121 cases over the last 7 days. The state reported 8,135 new cases this week, 2,878 fewer cases compared to last week, a decrease […]
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Covid continues its spike, hospitalizations high
Staff report The state reported 715 new Covid-19 cases, Tuesday, Jan. 18, with 116 hospitalized — a new record. Just prior, the state reported 806 cases Monday, 2,217 on Sunday, and 1,766 cases Saturday. The seven-day average is 1,604 cases […]
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Governor Scott doubles down on controversial school Covid policy changes
Staff report Gov. Phil Scott and other state officials defended their controversial and “abrupt” shift in school policy for combatting Covid-19 in the governor’s weekly press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 11. As case numbers have hit record numbers with the […]