“Hopefully people won’t hold it against us,” Miller said. “Hopefully 23 (hours) is enough for them.”
Admission to the virtual event is free, but the place that’s been shuttered for a year is accepting donations. Miller said the club is between federal grant periods but still paying electric bills. She and Hartswick plan to upgrade the venue’s HVAC and point-of-sale systems to make the space safer in a post-pandemic world.
“Everything’s got to change at least a little bit,” Miller said. “We’re redoing a lot of stuff in the club to make more space. When we first open back up it’s not going to be 160 people crammed into a room.”
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Dr Mark Levine, Health Commissioner, with Governor Phil Scott, at one of the first COVID-19 press conferences, March 16, 2020. VBM photo.
by Joyce Marcel, Vermont Business Magazine It would have been a bigger surprise if Vermont had failed.
Think of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, and how Vermont and Vermonters rose to meet the challenge. Why would we expect anything less when COVID-19 came along?
We wouldn t, of course, which is why Vermont has been a leader in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic since it first reared its ugly head at the beginning of the year 2020. Governor Phil Scott proclaimed a State of Emergency on March 13, 2020.
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Show Transcript RACE BETWEEN THE VACCINES AND TO DO ANY PRODUCTIVE ACTION WE NEED TO ACTUALLY BE LOOKING FOR TOP OF THEM. KIM: THREE COVID VARIANTS ALREADY IDENTIFIED HERE IN MARYLAND. THAT S WHY GOVERNOR HOGAN ANNOUNCED THE STATE IS MORE THAN DOUBLING THEIR SEQUENCING OF THE VIRUS FOR POSITIVE COVID TESTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH JOHNS HOPKINS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. INCREASING THE SEQUENCING ALLOWS US TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DIFFERENT FORMS OF THE VIRUS ARE CIRCULATING IN MARYLAND. THOSE KEY SEQUENCES WILL BE IF WE NEED TO MAKE A BOOSTER DOSE OF VACCINE. KIM: AS OF NOW DOCTORS SAY THE CURRENT VACCINES ARE EFFECTIVE AGAINST ALL OF THE KNOWN MUTATIONS. STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY IN MOST OF THE 60 CONFIRMED VARIANT