COVID-19 safety

Vaccinations for COVID-19 are around the corner as companies rush to get their versions approved for public use in America. Here is everything you need to know about them.

An interactive model created by researchers at MIT aims to create a more complex understanding of how safe people are from coronavirus while indoors that takes into account factors beyond how far apart people are. The researchers, Kasim Khan, John W. M. Bush and Martin Z. Bazant, say that evidence suggests staying at least six feet apart in social settings…

Many Vermont educators, at both public and private schools, will be encouraging physical distancing when classes resume in September, by taking their lessons outdoors whenever possible. “I think it’s going to be exciting,” said Lilly Irons, a fifth-grader at Lake Champlain Waldorf School in Shelburne. Irons’ school is set to start in-person five days a week this fall, mostly...

Classrooms will look quite different in many places when students go back to school in several weeks. In Vermont, some educators will be encouraging physical distancing by taking their lessons outdoors.