coronavirus
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Ways of Seeing: Are we still ‘Vermont Strong’?
Vermont was a media darling in the first year of the pandemic, keeping the virus in check better than any other state.
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Middlebury College now allows spectators at sports
As of Feb. 1 Middlebury College is permitting spectators at is athletics events provided they are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and have received their booster shot, if eligible.
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COVID has helped some re-set their priorities
The number of COVID-19 cases will decline and people will head back out into the world. But some people will be unsure of what to expect and what…
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Are antigen tests OK to use in cold weather?
With about 350,000 at-home antigen tests on their way to Vermonters’ mailboxes, readers wrote to VTDigger to ask how the antigen tests would hold up if left for…
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Editorial: How to help nurses and doctors
Hang in there, fellow Vermonters. We know we’re in the midst of a COVID surge sparked by the omicron variant that saw a record 116 patients in Vermont…
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Letter to the editor: Vaccines are made by people
I don’t know why the polio vaccines ended up being named after individuals, whereas others have not. Perhaps if the COVID vaccine were named after someone, it would…
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FAQs: COVID-19 symptoms, at-home tests & more
The UVM Medical Center Primary Care Team this week provided these answers to frequently asked questions on COVID-19, its symptoms and more. FAQs: COVID-19 Symptoms, At-home Tests and…
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Guest editorial: Health care alarm bells should be ringing
As an emergency doctor and a longtime observer of how policy decisions play out on the front line, I can say that the despair rings absolutely true, and…
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Omicron surge prompts county to hunker down
Local institutions and businesses have begun to adjust their policies, schedules and programming to protect public health.
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Top 10 of 2021: COVID concerns continue
The biggest story of our lifetimes dragged on through all of 2021 as the story of COVID-19 followed an arc through the year.
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Letter to the editor: Students not safe in school
I’m terrified to go to school. That’s really nothing new — I’m from a generation raised on school shooter drills, told that a strap on a door would…
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Letter to the editor: Town majority wants mask law
I join Dr. Jack Mayer and the others who spoke up at the board’s Dec. 28 meeting in urging the selectboard to reconsider a mask mandate for public…
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Demand for COVID tests booms
As schools for younger students prepare to reopen after the holiday break, local educators are hoping a new testing policy will help keep more unvaccinated kids in school…
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Neshobe Elementary forced online by COVID
Superintendent Jeanne Collins cited two main factors that prompted the action: a cluster of positive cases that affected a number of grade levels and sent at least six…
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Editorial: Fight indifference in 2022
In short, a successful 2022 will be in understanding how to manage COVID-19 and its inevitable variants, so that we can rediscover the energy, passion and enthusiasm of…
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Ways of seeing: Pandemic survival ten best list
My friend Julie told me this COVID pandemic may last five years. She said that based on what happened with the influenza pandemic of 1918, it could take…