Virus no problem for power, internet, state computers
Vermont’s power grid, internet connectivity and state computers are performing well, but some weaknesses are being exposed.
Deb Billado: A time to reset our priorities
These unprecedented times we are living in provide us with opportunity to reset our priorities. When we act to make someone else’s existence better and we show them we care, we will be blessed with the right to govern again as we once did.
Medical community reverses itself, CDC now recommending face masks to public
In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends, and the task force recommends, wearing cloth face coverings in public where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. These include places like grocery stores and pharmacies.
U.S. Chamber: More than half of U.S. small businesses to be closed within two weeks
Nearly one in four small businesses – 24 percent – have temporarily shut their doors due to the response to COVID-19 in the U.S., and an additional 40 percent said they likely will do so within the next two weeks.
Despite recent past aid failings, China is donating 1,000 ventilators to New York
Nearly half of the 1.3 million masks that the Chinese government donated to the Netherlands were found to be defective. Eighty percent of coronavirus test kits that Beijing provided the Czech Republic and Spain did not work.
Walmart customers unhappy without ‘Straight Talk’ cards
The coronavirus this week hit Vermonters where they live — again — after the Berlin Walmart roped off access to the Straight Talk phone cards, in response to Gov. Phil Scott’s ban on in-person sale of “non-essential products” at big box stores.
Opinion: A bigger government wouldn’t have prevented coronavirus. It would have made things worse.
Let’s not kid ourselves: A bigger government, at least one that maintains its outdated and creaky bureaucracies, never was going to stop this virus. Rather, it was going to increase the danger.
Coronavirus expert: Virus could have leaked from Wuhan lab
A molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC said Thursday in no uncertain terms that the novel coronavirus could have been unleashed due to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Small business loans to expand for COVID-19 relief
Small businesses will be able to access new loans starting Friday to help them stay afloat during the economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus.
Hydroxychloroquine shows promise in coronavirus study
Researchers in China found that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was effective in treating patients with mild cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to a study released Tuesday.
Economy collapsing under Gov. Scott, weekly jobless claims soar 286 percent
The number of Vermonters out of work and scrambling to provide for their families has skyrocketed two weeks in a row due to the Scott administration’s response to fears about the coronavirus.
We’re following a one-size-fits-all coronavirus strategy right into a Great Depression
We face an unprecedented situation — not a global pandemic, we’ve seen those before, but a modern capitalist economy that turned itself off for potentially more than 60 days, on purpose.