vaccination

Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine File Photo

Mobile vaccine sites coming to the valley, state ready to expand program

MONTPELIER- Vermont will begin vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds as soon as this week, pending guidance from the CDC, officials said, and walk-in mobile vaccine sites are coming to the Deerfield Valley next week.
“Barnstorming” events, as Vermont Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike...

Officials urge vaccination

MONTPELIER - With all Vermonters age 16 and over now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, at a press conference held Tuesday state officials urged Vermonters to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations. In addition, Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine discussed so-called “breakthrough cases”...

AHS Secretary Michael Smith

State says proof of vaccination can be asked for

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott and members of his administration updated Vermonters on the progress of the state’s vaccination program at a press conference Tuesday.
Returning from a call with other governors and the White House, Gov. Scott announced another increase in vaccine distribution...

Vermont's vaccine eligibility schedule. Vermont Department of Health

Fauci says students may be vaccinated by fall

Tells governors in Tuesday phone call
MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott and administration officials updated Vermonters on the progress of COVID-19 vaccination distribution at their biweekly briefing on Tuesday, March 23.
Gov. Scott, who joined the meeting late following...

Gov. Scott at Friday's press briefing

All Vermonters will able to register for COVID-19 vaccine by April 19, Gov. says

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott announced Friday that all Vermont adults will be able to schedule an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine by April 19, and announced another turn of the spigot.
According to the schedule released by state officials, Vermonters aged 60 and older will be...

Gov. Phil Scott File photo

Governor planning for full vaccination

Hopes for July 4 return to “normal” MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott said Vermont was on track to vaccinate every Vermonter who wants a COVID-19 vaccine by the beginning of summer, and predicted a return to “normal” by the Fourth of July.
Returning from a call with the White...

Gov. Scott File Photo

State expanding vaccine access to more people

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott announced the state would accelerate vaccine eligibility at his COVID-19 briefing Tuesday.
On Monday, the state began scheduling appointments under Phase 5a of their vaccination age-banding plan, for Vermonters 55 and older with health conditions that put them...

Gov. Scott says "the light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger and brighter”

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott opened his press briefing Friday on a somber note, asking everyone remember the 193 Vermonters who have been lost to the pandemic, and those who loved them. “Today marks nine months since Vermont’s first fatalities from Covid-19. As we have on the nineteenth of...

COVID-19 vaccinations expanding to Vermonters 70 and older

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott extended the COVID-19 state of emergency at his briefing Friday, and announced that Vermonters 70 and older could begin registering for vaccinations starting next week.
Gov. Scott said registration for Vermonters age 70 and older would begin on Tuesday,...

School district consider two-week holiday closure, opts to stay open

WARDSBORO- The River Valleys Unified Union School District Board held its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday. The board discussed the possibility of a two-week closure after the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, but decided no such closure will occur at this time. As the discussion took up the...