Letter to the editor: Pence should have waited to get the COVID vaccine

Note: the author sent this email to Vice President Pence earlier this week You had a COVID vaccine shot — why? These first shots are for people working with the ill, people who are exposed to COVID-19 all the time. These shots are for the elderly and people with compromised immune systems. You’re out of office in two weeks, you are no longer essential personnel. You should be ashamed of yourself for taking a vaccine needed by others far more than you need it. Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge Middlebury  

COLCHESTER — Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) is offering no-cost flu vaccines to all individuals in need of the vaccination this season. The free service is available in all 12 PPNNE health centers across Vermont.   Individuals using th … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center has asked for an initial 600-plus doses of COVID-19 vaccine to administer as soon as possible to its front-line health care workers, hospital officials confirmed on Friday. But while Vermont Department of Health (DOH) of … (read more)

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