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All in COVID-19
Waterbury’s non-profit MakerSphere, a collaborative work space, has mobilized dozens of Waterbury community members to sew more than 2,200 masks and assemble shields for Woodridge Nursing Home and other area medical facilities since mid-March.
In early March as University of Vermont students went on spring break, Dr. David Krag and his research intern began the intricate process of collecting research on COVID-19.
To manage through the hardships from COVID-19, local residents can turn to Waterbury CARES, a free volunteer matching service.
As the impacts of COVID-19 sweep through the country, the effects on women and minorities are disproportionately being felt.
Concerns over a concentration of cases in at least one Vermont prison have advocates for the state’s incarcerated population of 1,398 inmates calling for more prisoners to be released.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Vermont granted permission for 49 of its 121 finishing medical students at the Larner College of Medicine to graduate early on April 20, allowing them to report to residency training programs early.
A little over a century ago, UVM faced a calamity alarmingly similar to the current outbreak of COVID-19: the influenza pandemic of 1918.
As state public health officials monitor the growing caseload of COVID-19 patients across Vermont, the University of Vermont’s Patrick Gymnasium has been transformed into a 50-bed hospital site to expand efforts at the state’s largest hospital to address the virus outbreak.
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Although Vermont PreK-12 schools are closed for the remainder of the school year, students across the state have shifted to learning at home as part of the effort to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
