NOTE: As of March 2023, the Vermont Department of Health has stopped publishing data on daily Covid-19 case counts and hospitalizations. The data below is what is still available from weekly health department reports and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Every Wednesday, the Vermont Department of Health publishes weekly Covid-19 case counts for the prior week. The daily counts include only positive PCR test results. As of January 2022, officials estimate that case counts far exceed this figure due to the increased use of at-home rapid antigen tests.
The Vermont Department of Health releases data every Wednesday on the number of patients admitted to Vermont hospitals with Covid-19 in the past week. That includes patients who were admitted because of Covid symptoms as well as patients who were admitted for other reasons and tested positive for Covid while hospitalized.
Covid-19 deaths include any deaths in Vermont that have Covid listed as a cause or probable cause on their death certificate. Because of the time it takes to investigate and report Covid deaths, these deaths can be added to the data days or weeks after they occur, which can raise previous months’ count.
The study, now in its 10th year, provides a basis for “extremely important discussions in Vermont concerning racial disparities in policing,” according to the co-director of Vermont State Police’s Fair and Impartial Policing Committee.
Across the state, districts are reeling from the potential ramifications of the federal directive regarding Covid-19 pandemic support money some have already spent.
Reflecting on the state’s Covid policies that he helped spearhead, Levine said “there isn’t a hell of a lot I would have done differently, to be honest.”
“It was hard to anticipate the scale that this would go to,” said a state official who in 2020 was the director of health surveillance. “So with every new piece of information, we were sort of pivoting and adjusting our approach.”
