News roundup: Vermont's COVID positivity rate decreases slightly, hospitalizations go up

News roundup: Vermont's COVID positivity rate decreases slightly, hospitalizations go up

Vermont reporters provide a roundup of top news takeaways about the coronavirus, a federal bill allowing farmer input on milk prices and more for Friday, Dec. 3.
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from: Vermont Public Radio

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- Vermont ends November with record-breaking streak of severe Covid-19 outcomes
The Vermont Department of Health reported 482 new Covid-19 cases and two more deaths Friday. Hospitalizations also remain elevated: As of Friday, 81 people were hospitalized for Covid, with 22 in intensive care.
from: vtdigger.org
- How Vermont is tracking omicron
As more cases of the omicron variant pop up across the country, including in New York, Vermont health officials are keeping a close eye on how it's spreading. So far, no cases of omicron have been found in Vermont, but it's likely the first case isn't ...
from: WPTZ
- VDH: COVID cases remain high at 482, two deaths for 416
Photo inside the UVM Medical Center ICU. In response to the surge in hospitalizations, the UVM Medical Center in Burlington is adding 10 COVID and five ICU beds (transferred from the operating room) and Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin is adding ...
from: Vermont Biz
- Chen: Enough is enough
Doing this will reduce COVID cases, lowering the stress on our overstretched health care and public health systems and the valiant people who have given so much to the pandemic response. It will also relieve businesses of the burden of enforcing masking to ...
from: Rutland Herald