coronavirus in vermont

Students in Vermont will not be able to start playing sports next week as planned and may have to switch to remote learning if their families partake in Thanksgiving gatherings with people outside of their households, officials said Tuesday. “We understand how difficult this is, but since we know these types of gatherings have been the cause of so many…

After months without a single coronavirus-related death in Vermont, four people have died in the last two weeks, Gov. Phil Scott said Friday. One person with coronavirus died in Vermont Thursday, raising the state’s death toll to 62. The health department reported a record daily high of 148 positive cases Thursday and 146 Friday, closing in on 3,500 cases total….

Vermont’s governor and health commissioner Tuesday called on residents of their state to get even more serious about disease prevention, following sharp spikes in coronavirus infections recently. Gov. Phil Scott defended strict coronavirus restrictions put in place by his administration Tuesday, saying those who choose to flaunt guidelines should not call themselves patriotic. “The skeptics are right: they can...

Amid COVID spikes in Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday called on his state to get much more serious about disease prevention and remember what made the state the healthiest in the nation this summer.

Vermont will start testing K-12 teachers and staff for COVID-19 starting next week as a strategy that health officials hope will help to track the spread of the coronavirus in communities. Teachers and school staff are not at a higher risk of contracting the illness caused by the virus but they “represent a large group of individuals in an organized…

The outbreak of people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 traced to a Montpelier hockey rink has expanded to 30, the Vermont Health Department said Monday. The cases are linked to adult and youth hockey leagues and an adult broomball league at the Central Vermont Memorial Civic Center. The Health Department is planning a pop-up testing clinic Thursday at…

The Vermont Health Department on Monday reported 33 new cases of the coronavirus, the largest one-day increase since June 3. Statistics posted to the department’s website said that 26 of the new cases were in Addison County. Health Department and Agriculture officials planned a news conference in the afternoon to discuss the state’s investigation into an outbreak of COVID-19 at…

Is a “third wave” of coronavirus cases poised to hit the U.S.? Idaho is just one state where outbreaks in college and university towns are contributing to a spike in cases. Dr. Frank Johnson, the vice president for medical affairs at St. Luke’s Clinic in Idaho, joined LX News to discuss what he’s seeing in his state and how the...

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott urged residents Tuesday not to let their guard down despite the state’s recent success in keeping the coronavirus in check. “We continue to do well here in Vermont, and we’re not seeing the jump in cases we thought we would at this point,” he said. But he said other parts of the country and even...

Some educators are already wondering if remote learning could mean the end of snow days, the unexpected days off when weather conditions make it too hard for staff and children to reach school. Bryan Olkowski, the superintendent of the Washington Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, recently floated the idea at a school board meeting. He said he brought it up…

Public health officials in Vermont said the state is considering becoming the second state to mandate flu shots as a way to ease the burden of influenza amid the coronavirus pandemic. Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine said Friday the rate of flu in the state needs to be as low as possible to avoid a situation he called a “twindemic.”…

“The goal is not to open schools, the goal is to keep them open,” former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, adding that “Massachusetts has done a relatively good job.”

While Vermont reported 61 new coronavirus cases over the last week — an increase from 39 the week before — the news delivered by Gov. Phil Scott and his administration at a news conference Friday was mostly positive. Finance Commissioner Mike Pieciak said the slight increase was due in large part to college students returning to campuses across the Green…

Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday reiterated Vermont is on track to start school in the fall due to a low number of coronavirus cases in the state. The Green Mountain State reported just one new case on Monday, bringing its total number of confirmed cases to 1,427, while the death toll remained at 57. “Our numbers continue to look good…

With Vermont’s mask mandate now in effect, residents are now adapting to the new expectations.

Two Vermont museums are reopening after coronavirus-induced shutdowns. The Bennington Museum, in Bennington, and the Fairbanks Museum, in St. Johnsbury, will open on Wednesday with visitors required to wear facial coverings. At the Bennington Museum visitors will also their temperature taken before entering and anyone who’s temperature exceeds 100 degrees will not be admitted, the Bennington Banner reported. Museums and…

Vermont is expanding their trusted travel map, a list of communities that have been approved to visit the state without a two week quarantine. Counties in other states must meet a threshold of less than 400 active cases per million and be within driving distance of Vermont in order to qualify. Beginning July 1, counties in states including Pennsylvania, New…

Vermont is up to 1,095 total cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase in 74 cases from the day before, while the number of deaths remained the same at 55. State Health Commissioner Mark Levine said that the majority of the new cases, or roughly 70%, are from an outbreak in Winooski, Vermont, a densely populated suburb of Burlington. Gov….

After Hurricane Irene sent flood waters raging through the tiny town of Wilmington, Vermont, in 2011, residents responded the way they always had. They showed up with bucket loaders, shovels and anything they could find to clean out mud-caked basements. When word spread in April that Cleon Boyd, a lifelong resident who embodied the town’s toughness, had died from coronavirus,…