COVID-19
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Experts: Get a flu shot; COVID vaccine recommendations contentious
The Vermont Department of Health is encouraging all Vermonters to get vaccinated for RSV and the flu. On Sept. 18, the Department issued a standing order allowing for…
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Vt. is changing how it tracks COVID-19 in the state’s wastewater
Bob Fischer, water quality superintendent for South Burlington, remembers when researchers first realized that they could track the health of a population through its sewer system decades ago.
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Program for free COVID tests revived
Set to take place ahead of a possible winter surge, the program offers Americans free coronavirus tests sent through the mail.
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COVID-19 flares up at Helen Porter nursing home
The nursing home confirmed that 21 of its residents tested positive for COVID-19, and the facility has reinstituted its visitor/staff masking requirement.
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COVID case counts and hospitalizations very low in county
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 haven’t been this low since May of 2022.
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Porter Hospital rolling back COVID masking policy
Visitors to most units of three UVM Health Network hospitals in Vermont will not not have to wear masks starting Wednesday.
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Top Ten 2022: Living with COVID
After a bad winter, we mostly learned to live with COVID over the course of the year and for most of us it became more of a constant…
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Vt. receives funds to help defray COVID testing costs
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $13.2 million to the State of Vermont to reimburse it for the cost of testing both the public…
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College and town leaders gather to discuss getting through pandemic
At a special town-gown dinner hosted at Atwater Dining Hall on Oct. 21 by Middlebury College President Laurie Patton, more than 100 area residents, members of the Middlebury…
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Bivalent vaccine numbers are lagging
About 26,000 Vermonters have gotten the Omicron booster, putting the state on a slower pace than previous booster campaigns, according to data from the state Department of Health.