The present coronavirus emergency is far more pervasive than Irene, far more demanding of the health care system, and far more destructive of the state’s economy. Fortunately, the Legislature was in session when it arrived.
Vermont’s power grid, internet connectivity and state computers are performing well, but some weaknesses are being exposed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In mid-March, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy heard from energy experts about how effectively doubling portions of the state’s Renewable Energy Standards could have dramatic consequences for ratepayers and require massive amounts of new solar to be built across the Vermont landscape.
Let’s not kid ourselves: A bigger government, at least one that maintains its outdated and creaky bureaucracies, never was going to stop this virus.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.
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 businesses will be able to access new loans starting Friday to help them stay afloat during the economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus.
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.