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 living a full and rich life.

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 that long for COVID to become endemic.

An elderly friend just had his hip replacement put off, as Burlington, Middlebury and Rutland hospitals had no bed for him. Of the patients who had the bed, almost all COVID patients were not fully vaccinated.

MONTPELIER – Governor Phil Scott today announced that parents and caregivers of Vermont’s K-12 children will be able to pick up one free rapid antigen test kit per student this week at sites around Vermont. The state is encouraging parents to use these ki … (read more)

Middlebury College has delayed the start of the upcoming winter term and students’ return to campus. It is also preparing for more COVID-19 cases in the wake of the omicron variant.

So far only a handful of Vermonters have tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19, state health officials said on Dec. 21. But that won’t be true for long.

When I moved to Vermont for college, I was 18 and had barely left Texas. My family drove me, and I was terrified when I realized how far Vermont was from home.

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) is suggesting ways that Vermont businesses can mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace during the holidays. The advice comes as Vermont sees a precipitous rise in COVID- … (read more)

The unanimous decision came as a disappointment to around 20 local residents who had implored the board — through testimony and emails — to take advantage of a new state statute that allows communities to enact mandatory mask laws.

A surge in COVID-19 cases at Middlebury College last week prompted an abrupt shift to remote instruction, and the college is encouraging students to leave early for winter break, if they can.

With the highest sustained rates of COVID in Addison County since the start of the pandemic, we are increasingly facing the unnerving reality of running out of room in hospitals and Intensive Care Units across the state.

My father recalled a day during elementary school when all the kids from the school were taken down to the Town Hall, and everyone was given a polio vaccine.

I grew up in the early 1950s. Back then everybody got to see the effects of polio on people of all ages.

After reporting 47 new cases of COVID-19 since Wednesday, Middlebury College switched to remote instruction Friday morning and is encouraging students to leave early for winter break, which begins after exams end on Dec. 19.

The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation this week issued an emergency regulation requiring health insurers to cover the costs of COVID-19 antigen at-home tests