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The CDC recommendations are non-binding, ... Vermont currently recommends that in the elementary grades, students be kept a minimum of 3 feet apart, not 6.
Every Vermont county besides Essex and Windham has “high” Covid-19 community levels, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported late Thursday. The counties in the CDC’s ...
Vermont and CDC are tracking adverse reaction to COVID vaccines. Here's what the data shows. Ethan Bakuli. Burlington Free Press. Vermonters who have already started to receive their COVID-19 ...
The new guidelines from the CDC — and the success of Vermont’s vaccination efforts — allowed him to move up that timeline, he said on Friday. Vermont’s mask mandate has been in place since ...
The CDC also recommends that camps set up “cohorts,” or small groups of campers, to limit possible transmission. Vermont mandates that a camper arriving at an overnight camp will have to show ...
The CDC is trying to increase the availability of vaccine doses, and health officials are expecting more vaccine to arrive in Vermont "in the coming weeks and months." ...
Vermont's policy allowing people to leave quarantine a bit early after a negative COVID-19 test appears to have been effective and could be a model for other communities during the pandemic ...
This approach meant bumping CDC-recommended priority groups that tend to include Vermont's communities of color, who make up 6% of the state's population but were represented in 18% of the state's ...
Cases have been highest in Texas and New Mexico, according to the CDC. Vermont has been mostly spared thus far, with only one travel-related case reported by the state Department of Health.
The CDC recommended vaccinating individuals who are between the ages of 16 and 64 with certain medical conditions, including obesity, which Vermont includes in its list of high-risk health conditions.
The organization says funding changes at the CDC and Vermont Health Department mean they’re losing $200,000 that will impact the work they do to offer free HIV testing and health resources.