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May 11, 2022 COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont
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Date: May 19, 2022, 11:14 am
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[center]May 11, 2022 COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on
Vermont[/center]
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
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COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
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[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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[center]TWO YEARS AGO TODAY:[/center]
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May 18, 2022 COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 19, 2022, 11:15 am
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[center]May 18, 2022 COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on
Vermont[/center]
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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[center]TWO YEARS AGO TODAY:[/center]
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May 25, 2022 COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE
📢🤷‍♂️ NO MORE Emphasis on
Vermont
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 25, 2022, 12:11 pm
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May 18, 2022
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👉 Covid levels remain high as state pulls back on
testing, data dashboard
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[center]May 25, 2022 COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE[/center]
🦉 NOTE: No more emphasis on Vermont because Vermont has
stopped updating their [b]COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
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/>
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SOURCE for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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June 1, 2022 COVID-19 LAST WEEKLY UPDATE 📢 Monthly
updates after today
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 1, 2022, 11:15 am
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[center]June 1, 2022 COVID-19 LAST WEEKLY UPDATE[/center]
🦉 NOTE: Monthly updates after today.
[center]
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[b]SOURCE for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 20, 2022, 10:47 am
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June 15, 2022 By Erin Petenko
[center]A look back at a year of a ‘reopened’ Vermont[/center]
SNIPPET:
This week, the health department released weekly data showing
that Vermont is reporting about 105 cases per day — suggesting
that the state has pulled out of the BA.2 surge, which peaked at
over 300 reported cases per day. The health department said
Wednesday that it rates Vermont as having “low” Covid levels.
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Experts agree that BA.2 appears to be on the decline in Vermont,
but expressed uncertainty about what that means for high-risk
Vermonters or the future of the pandemic in the coming months.
😬
Asked at a press conference Tuesday to reflect on the one-year
anniversary of his reopening decision, Scott hearkened back even
further to the early days of the pandemic in 2020.
“So much has changed right from the very, very beginning. We had
no playbook; we didn't know what we were getting into,” he said.
“From a historical standpoint, we've made great strides, from
vaccines being the most significant to begin with, and then all
the treatment that we have available,” he said, contrasting that
with a time when “we thought (there) was surface transmission of
the virus, so we were cleaning everything in the beginning.”
Levine said he thinks of the pandemic as five different
pandemics: the beginning phase with the initial strain, followed
by four phases of different variants dominating the state.
“Every time one of these new variants occurred, it was a
completely different strategy and management plan,” Levine said.
Advances in people’s understanding of the science “also creates
transitions, and transition times are the most uncomfortable for
people and make them the most anxious,” Levine said. “They
remember what they just did before and, why are they doing it
again? And it really creates the need for abundant messaging and
communication and being very transparent.”
At the press conference, Scott emphasized the need for Vermont
to address the way Covid restrictions cause harm for mental
health and emotional well-being, particularly for children.
“While Covid isn't going away, we have so many more tools and
more experience to manage it,” he said. “So as the solution for
the situation continues to improve, it's important we continue
to work to reverse the harms resulting from some of the
mitigation measures we put in place before we have all these
tools.”
But he said that, while officials weren’t concerned about a
Covid spike this summer, the fall could bring another variant
and yet another increase in cases. “I don't want to give you the
impression that we think this is over,” Scott said.
Full article with several graphs:
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Vermont charges Walgreens with causing unsafe conditions for
patients and staff
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 1, 2022, 11:05 am
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June 30, 2022 By Katherine Fiegenbaum
[center]State charges Walgreens
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/>with causing unsafe conditions for patients and staff[/center]
SNIPPETS:
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Documents filed last week by the Office of Professional
Regulation detail reports of unsafe and untenable working
conditions at Walgreens locations throughout the state,
including the one on Suzie Wilson Road in Essex Junction,
pictured here. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
According to the office’s investigation, in the spring of 2021,
a patient at the Manchester Walgreens was allegedly prescribed
capsules five times stronger
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/>than her usual dose, which resulted in hallucinations, nausea
and blurred vision for several days and caused her to miss
school.
In October 2021, according to the charging document, a patient
at the Pearl Street Walgreens in Essex Junction was given a
Pfizer Covid booster instead of the flu shot they requested.
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At the Walgreens location on Susie Wilson Road in Essex
Junction, the document states that the pharmacist-manager worked
12-hour shifts daily, and came in early and stayed after her
finishing shifts. She was also allegedly required to work during
a time when her partner, with whom she shared a home, tested
positive for Covid.
The Essex Junction pharmacist-manager reached out to Walgreens
on a number of occasions with concerns about the untenable
workload and stressful conditions, but the company “failed to
provide any assistance and told the employee to ‘be patient’ and
‘be a leader,’” the document states.
In October 2021, the pharmacist-manager resigned, citing
“horrible pharmacy practices” resulting from the lack of
resources and support from Walgreens.
Complaints from the same store also reported that the pharmacy
staff members were unable to answer the phone most days. In
November 2021, a floater pharmacist allegedly informed a caller
that the pharmacy was “barely open” and whatever prescription
the caller was looking for “probably wasn’t ready” due to the
lack of staff.
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When the same floater pharmacist reported the unsafe workload
and lack of staffing issues to his district manager, he reported
being told to “figure it out” and “we need to be Netflix, not
Blockbuster.”
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/>According to the charging document, Walgreens Corp. provided
no
assistance in response to the floater pharmacist’s plea for
help.
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A large number of the allegations detail unexpected store
closures without notice to patients that prevented them from
being able to pick up necessary prescriptions, causing missed
doses and out-of-pocket charges from other pharmacies.
Full article:
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Monthly Update: COVID-19
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 1, 2022, 12:07 pm
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[center]July 1, 2022 COVID-19 MONTHLY UPDATE[/center]
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SOURCE for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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[center]TWO YEARS AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 11, 2023, 5:26 pm
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May 11 2023, 8:50 AM By Erin Petenko
[center]Thousands more than expected ☠️ died in
Vermont during the [glow=red,2,300]🏴
pandemic[/glow].[/center]
[move]Research points to delayed care, isolation and uncounted
[glow=red,2,300]Covid deaths[/glow].[/move]
SNIPPETS:
Vermont reported almost 3,000 more deaths from 2020 to 2023 than
would have been expected were it not for the Covid-19 pandemic,
according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention — but less than one-third of those deaths have been
directly attributed to the virus.
The increased mortality points to a rising tide of challenges
Vermonters experienced during lockdown: delayed access to health
care, isolation and a worsening of the state’s decadeslong
opioid crisis.
The additional deaths could also point to a hidden cause —
Covid-related deaths that were not recorded as such, according
to Steven Woolf, a population health researcher at the Virginia
Commonwealth University School of Medicine. ... ...
But 2020 was only the beginning of Vermont’s struggles with the
virus, according to CDC data. The number of excess deaths ticked
up throughout 2021 and reached a [glow=red,2,300]peak[/glow] in
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/>January 2022 during the height of the [glow=red,2,300]Omicron
variant wave[/glow]. ... ...
The lack of investment in primary care meant that few people had
a primary care doctor to fall back on when hospitals were too
busy to visit. Primary care practices were “overwhelmed” and not
ready to handle telehealth, Woolf said.
“A lot of people developed complications from diabetes and heart
disease and so forth because they were not able to get their
medicines,” he said. “They were not able to get their chronic
conditions checked.”
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Full article:
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s Next Big Idea
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 31, 2023, 3:47 pm
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May 28, 2023, 5:21 PM by Wesley J. Smith
[center]A [glow=teal,2,300]Stanford Professor’s[/glow] Fight for
🗽 Free Speech and Genuine Science[/center]
[glow=teal,2,300]Dr. Jay Bhattacharya[/glow], professor of
medicine and economics at Stanford, was censored for his views
on the pandemic. Now he hopes to create a national commission to
explore the government’s response to COVID-19.
Continue Reading:
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Only Include Omicron in Next COVID Vaccine, Says FDA Panel
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 16, 2023, 6:31 pm
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June 16, 2023 by Ingrid Hein, Staff Writer, MedPage
[center]Only Include Omicron in Next
[glow=maroon,2,300]COVID[/glow] 💉 Vaccine, Says FDA
Panel[/center]
[move]👉 Agency likely to recommend vaccine manufacturers
target [glow=maroon,2,300]XBB.1.5[/glow] with updated shots
💉[/move]
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