K-12 school districts who stayed with remote learning the longest during the pandemic saw a 13% sharper drop in learning losses than schools that returned to in-person learning sooner, according to study by a Brown University economist Emily Oster.
The treasurer of the Board of Directors of EcoHealth Alliance, the not-for-profit associated with coronavirus research in Wuhan, China, is a Vermont veterinarian.
A new federal report shows that the nationwide shutdown of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic led to historic learning losses for students. The Department of Education released data Thursday showing that national test scores declined the most in decades.
The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the bill in the previous session allowing pharmacists to make the drug available via standing order as part of an effort to expand the availability of the medicine. Ivermectin was touted by some as a remedy for COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Life expectancy across all groups in the U.S. has fallen 2.7 years from 2019 to 2021, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Wednesday.
Germany has gone “full Germany” on the subject of mask mandates. The new Infection Protection Act requires indoor masking for the unvaccinated beginning this fall.
“I wrote ‘Lockdown’ basically as a look back on where the government got it wrong and how the Democrats used it for political gain, but more importantly, looking forward to how the Democrats plan to continue to use a pandemic to segue into the next cause to justify continuing lockdowns,” Cheryl Chumley says.
Instead of spending the COVID-19 windfall on safety enhancements education officials themselves evidently knew weren’t necessary, school district after school district is now spending the money on “teacher recruitment and retention.”
After closing down much of the economy and making unprecedented requirements for quarantines and masking during the initial COVID-19 mitigation effort, it appears this year the state of Vermont will be treating the coronavirus more like a seasonal flu.
“It’s less about mandates on the plane than it is about who has the right and the authority and the capability of making public health decisions,” Fauci said.
Three days ago, we reported that the vaccinated accounted for 94% of COVID deaths. Today we’ve got more troubling news. Children, who were never a vector but were lined up and jabbed anyway, are dying in record proportion to their unvaccinated peers.
Vermont will receive $57.9 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding to provide more access to capital for Vermont entrepreneurs and small business startups. Vermont’s State Small Business Credit Initiative program will include access to low interest loans and early-stage venture capital investments.