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Burlington Board of Health stretched thin, needs more staff

Wicked Local The Burlington Health Department’s volunteer medical corps distributed 200 COVID-19 vaccines to the town’s first responders over the past week, and is preparing to give the same group their second round next month, according to Dr. Ed Weiner, the chairman of the Board of Health. According to Weiner, the town’s police and firefighters, as well as some federal agents and a military police officer, were vaccinated by the 250 member volunteer corps, which included registered nurses and nurse practitioners. No adverse medical effects were reported. Weiner is also currently advocating in advance of next week’s Town Meeting for support for creating an assistant director position for the Board of Health. With the COVID virus clinics and contact tracing, in addition to conducting flu clinics and continuing all of the other responsibilities of the Board of Health, including inspection of restaurants, stores, hotels, camps and biotech, management of trash and floodin

How Burlington High School will move forward following principal s resignation

How Burlington High School will move forward following principal s resignation April Barton, Burlington Free Press © APRIL BARTON/FREE PRESS Burlington High School and Burlington Technical Center remain closed on Oct. 19, 2020 after PCBs, a cancer-causing agent, was found in air quality tests. BHS students are currently learning remotely, something they became accustomed to during the coronavirus pandemic which closed the school seven months ago. BTC students are expected to be back to full, in-person classes by the end of October after the community found locations across the area to host the BTC programs. Update, Feb. 2 2021: At a meeting of the Burlington Board of School Commissioners, Lauren McBride and Gayle Botelho were officially conferred to their positions of interim principal and assistant principal respectively.

Burlington s COVID-19 cases surging as a red community | Burlington

BURLINGTON - The town of Burlington’s “red” designation isn’t going anywhere soon after data revealed more bad news regarding the recent spike in positive COVID-19 cases. As of this past Thursday’s data reveal, the community sits uncomfortably at 781 confirmed cases (was 648 eight days ago). In the last two weeks, there have been 239 total positive tests with a 7.21 percent positivity rate during that 14-day period, which is higher than it was last week this time. Last Thursday, the number of positive cases over the 14-day period was 163 with a 5.31 percent positivity rate. Since March, the total number of positive tests in Burlington is 781, as of this past Thursday at 5 p.m. The average daily incidence rate per 100,000 in the last two weeks is 57.8 (was 38.77 last Thursday), leaving the town in the “red” group designation for the second straight week. These figures are all higher than they were the last time the data was revealed last Thursday.

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