State data show that 25% of Vermonters have received the vaccine in 2024-25 season, compared to 26% in 2022-23. The highest percentage (33%) is in Chittenden County, the lowest in rural Essex County (11%).
One man, until Jan. 9, was still facing prosecution by the state for an alleged violation of the controversial COVID-era masking policy.
The detection of multiple undeclared toxic elements, including heavy metals, in COVID-19 vaccines raises a dual and multiplied concern for human health.
A 2005 federal law grants broad immunity to Big Pharma and anyone involved in vaccination during a declared public health emergency.
After the pandemic, high school students are less interested in attending college. And parents are less motivated to urge them to pursue more education, VSAC said.
After spending fraudulently acquired Paycheck Protection $$ on high-end sneakers, Delima will be cooling his heels in prison.
Should our government leave no stone unturned to discover the origin of the Covid-19 virus, even if the path leads to Wuhan, China? The new National Institutes of Health director faced this question at her nomination hearing.
The Children’s Health Defense Bus will be collecting Vermonters’ COVID hospital protocol and vax injury and death stories during two visits to Vermont this month.
A medical degree is not required to know the vital importance of free thought. Meryl Nass, the mouse that roared, roars for us all.
A pizzeria owner spent $660,000 in federal ‘paycheck protection’ money to buy an alpaca farm. But (to quote JO editor Alex de Nuti-Biasi), “The alPPPacas did nothing wrong.”
Students in Vermont public schools at the University of Vermont will not need a Covid-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for enrollment.
Some of her constituents cried foul when Rep. Becca Balint tried to prevent RFK from testifying at a House panel on government censorship.
A Burlington scientist asks the Vermont Dept. of Health to bring more clarity to the high rate of age 15-54 heart disease deaths by correlating with their vaccination status.
Vaccination requirements to cross land ports of entry and ferry terminals into the U.S. will end on Friday.
The House version of H305 allowed pharmacy techs to administer Covid-19 vaccinations to adults only.
The Covid Federal Emergency is scheduled to end on May 11. However, approval for face masks and other emergency authorized products is expected to continue.
Speaking of rats, Kennedy ties a bow around his expose by mentioning the captured agencies and names of those who knowingly lie about their culpability.
A pizzeria owner spent $660,000 in federal ‘paycheck protection’ money to buy an alpaca farm.
Dr. Horace “Sandy” Reider will join Great Barrington Declaration co-author Martin Kulldorf at Dartmouth College Wednesday, April 26.
Author Naomi Wolf and 2,500 volunteer researchers took a deep dive on 55,000 documents released by Pfizer. And oh, what they found……
People were shocked when a court refused to hold Brattleboro schools liable for vaccinating a child without parental consent.
Persistent anti-mask mandate and health educator Amy Hornblas describes her battle with state and local education and health authorities over the Covid-19 public school mask mandate.
Is it possible to have a reasonable conversation with your doctor about COVID-19 vaccines?
Observers are hoping THIS ‘tabletop exercise’ about the next pandemic isn’t as prophetic as the last one.
A key speaker at a Banned-On-YouTube Burlington seminar on October 25 talks with Vermont Independent about the new technocratic biosecurity surveillance regime.
Young people started dying in greater numbers and for no apparent reason beginning in 2021. A new book asks why.
Seemingly overshadowed by the imposing State House Christmas tree, many small candles burned bright in the darkness.
President Biden signed the declaration despite the promises made by his White House COVID-19 Response Team leader, Jeff Zients, who in April 2021 stated, “Let me be clear that the government is not now, nor will we be supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a [vaccination] credential.”
CDC data show that about 6 in 10 adults dying of COVID-19 between April – August 2022 were vaccinated or boosted.
On Nov. 12, 2019, a dispatch by Chinese Communist party branch members at the BSL-4 laboratory appeared to reference a biosecurity breach. “Once you have opened the stored test tubes, it is just as if having opened Pandora’s Box.”
Robert Kennedy Jr.’s book and two film documentaries about Anthony Fauci’s role in the Covid-19 pandemic provide behind-the-scenes information going back to his uncle JFK’s presidency.
Horrifying VAERS data show 35,000 deaths and 5,000 miscarriages so far from Covid-19 vaccine reactions, a veteran medical biochemist told a large audience in South Burlington today.
It’s inexplicable. Why would the CDC advisory committee endorse an experimental not-really-a-vaccine for a disease with minimal symptoms on children?
There’s no meeting scheduled for a little-known state board tasked with advising state health officials on immunizing all Vermont school children for Covid-19.
The Covid-19 MRNA vaccine was found in the breast milk of about half of the participants in a New York hospital study.
The treasurer of the board of directors of an alleged Wuhan ‘gain of function’ research organization is a Vermont veterinarian.
Mattias Desmet, Dutch doctor and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, was interviewed by Dr. Rob Williams on his Vermont Independent video program. Book review by Jim Hogue.
It’s official – Vermont schools won’t require students to receive a Covid-19 vaccination.
The memo leaves the option of masking to parents, unless the child is showing symptoms and is being sent home, at which point the nurse will have discretion to require a mask: “Staff and students should be permitted to exercise their own or their family’s decision-making to wear a mask in school settings.”
Today at 5PM, Bernie Sanders is hosting a Live Q and A with White House COVID-19 response coordinator, Dr. Jha. Alison Despathy chimes in.
Less than one child in 12 ages six months – 5 years has been vaxxed for Covid-19, Commissioner Mark Levine said yesterday.
No global pandemic treaty can bind the U.S. without Congressional approval, Vermont’s retiring senior senator said. However, critics say the Biden administration’s controversial proposed treaty language can be adopted because a treaty is already in place.
Vermonters who suspect they’ve suffered vaccine injury should tell the CDC and keep seeking medical opinions, Health Commissioner Mark Levine said Tuesday.
Last week, 140 employees tested positive, about nine times the 15 cases of two months ago.
After informing health officials, doctors, and local social media of his vaccine injuries, Greg Robbins of St. Johnsbury got censored by Front Porch Forum, no answers from his doctors, and no help from state and federal government ‘health’ agencies.
A health educator from Cabot wants the Legislature’s government accountability committee to weigh the pros and cons of Vermont’s pandemic response.
Rutland’s hospital no longer has a mandatory masking and vax policy for most employees and visitors.
Vaccinated Canadian tourists may visit the U.S., the Canadian government has announced. This will make border towns and the tourist economy very happy, Gov. Phil Scott says.
Regardless of what Pfizer says, Vermont doesn’t need to push shot #4 now, the Scott administration says. But in the future? Time will tell.
Lawmakers chuckle as Vermont’s senior education official talks about ‘pushing the needle’ to aggressively vaccinate rural Vermonters. Good one!
Students in Vermont’s capital are planning to walk out Wednesday to demand that school mask mandates NOT be lifted.
The State of Vermont says releasing data on vaxxed vs. unvaxxed deaths and hospitalizations would violate federal HIPAA patient info protection law. So sorry.
An online organization named The People’s Convoy claims an American Freedom Convoy will begin in Southern California this Wednesday.
Saturday, February 19 rally for freedom on the Williston Road overpass in words, video and photos.
A crowd of Vermonters stood at all five corners of Essex Junction’s busiest intersection during rush hour on Friday, hearing plenty of sympathetic “honks” from commuters.
An Orange County supervisory union this morning backed off an unpopular plan to require all employees to be vaccinated. Instead they will allow religious, medical, and testing exemptions.
A Vermont mom fears her children will be coerced to get vaxxed so that her school can go mask-free. Dr. Robert Malone responds.
Phil Scott is no fan of requiring students to accept vaccines under Emergency Use Authorization.
The State of Vermont won’t advocate universal masking in schools after February 28 – but only in schools with 80% vaccination.
On February 28, the State of Vermont will announce its new ‘direction’ for school masking.
Both Phil Scott and Mark Levine say they don’t know if anyone in the U.S. has died of a reaction from the Pfizer vaccine. And, consideration of requiring Covid-19 vaccination for school children is “on the table” – but not right now, Levine says.
A state advisory board meeting met today to discuss requiring Covid-19 vaccination of preschoolers and schoolage children. But no-one did.
Gov. Phil Scott says he wants prison inmates to enjoy visits from family and other visitors for the first time since the early days of the pandemic. But will his administrators in the Dept. of Corrections agree?
UVM researchers found the deadly Delta variant has six times the ‘viral load’ of the original Alpha Covid-19 variant.
Frontline workers cope with panic attacks and compassion fatigue with faith, rest, and connections.
An unvaccinated hospital employee says she has been discriminated against and shamed.
The chief of critical care in Vermont’s largest hospital took to Instagram to express frustration with “entitled and privileged” vaccine refusers who expect life-saving care in the ICU.
Another blow to the Biden administration as OSHA backpedals on its vaccine and testing mandate.
Total cases, ICU hospitalizations, and deaths from the Omicron variant are trending down.
Vermonters can order at-home antigen tests online, Gov. Scott says.
The leader of the Vermont Senate reportedly said a statewide mask mandate is going nowhere this year.
Covid was “Cause A” on 26% of all Vermont Covid-related death certificates from April 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021. About a third of all 440 deaths were confirmed Covid-related by laboratory testing.
A leading ‘dissident’ physician is defending Dr. Meryl Nass, the Maine physician ordered to undergo a psych evaluation after she prescribed hydroxychloroquine for a Covid-19 patient.
Vermonters’ health is declining during the pandemic – and not just due to Covid-19 itself, a new UVM study says.
The Health Dept. is too busy with the Omicron surge to report on the number of unvaccinated Covid-19 deaths.
The State of Maine has ordered an outspoken anti-vax mandate doctor with Vermont connections to get a psych eval or risk losing her license.
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for Vermont’s biggest hospital to re-impose its all-worker vaccine mandate, with no exceptions for natural immunity or testing.
Vermonters flocked online to order the free rapid tests in the State of Vermont’s collaboration with the NIH and Amazon.
Neither Gov. Phil Scott, Finance Commissioner Mike Pieciak, nor Health Commissioner Mark Levine could tell how many unvaxxed Vermonters died in December, the second-most deadly month in the “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
National leaders in the field of law, ethics, and medicine will meet this weekend for the Vermont Covid Summit.
Almost a third of Vermont’s ICU beds are empty today.
Meg Hansen discusses with Bill Sayre how Covid-19 should be treated early.
500,000 rapid tests will be delivered to Vermont homes.
Concern about side effects, vaccine safety, and distrust of both the vaccines and the government are among the reasons why Vermonters won’t take the jab.
No Omicron tsunami has swamped Vermont’s 17 hospitals yet. A third of the state’s inpatient and ICU beds are unoccupied. Covid-19 accounts for 7% of inpatient beds, 14% of ICU beds.
A majority of Vermont House members decided today to Zoom through the first two weeks of the Omicron Legislature.
92 towns and cities are saying no to a public places mask mandate. 20 have said yes. At least another 11 reportedly have taken no action at all.
The YMCA of Burlington now requires everyone who enters to wear a mask and show proof of vaccination.
Despite the evidence, Health Commissioner Mark Levine calls the vaccine extraordinarily safe. And doesn’t respond directly to concerns about people losing jobs because they won’t get vaccinated.
In November, for the third month in a row, Covid-19 killed more fully vaccinated Vermont residents than unvaccinated.
This news story went viral: more than three-quarters of Vermont Covid-19 fatalities in September were vaccine ‘breakthrough’ cases.
Free antigen tests for students K-12 . Registration required. Testing NOT required for returning to school.
Health Commissioner Mark Levine said in a late May press conference he was unaware the CDC website shows eight Vermonters have died as a Covid-19 vaccinations.
Officials don’t know how many of Vermont’s 455 official Covid-19 deaths are actually from Covid, or are just “with” Covid.
At yesterday’s press conference, the Health Dept. announced Covid ICU bed use fell last week. And Health Commissioner Mark Levine said the fully vaxxed can transmit the disease.
A St. Johnsbury man was handcuffed and escorted out of the North Country Union High School gym for not wearing a mask.
A lawmaker fights for medical freedom using the tool of non-compliance.
At noontime last Thursday, a Montpelier co-op shopper became angry after being denied service for not wearing a mask. Now police say he knocked over a sign with his pickup truck.
The Scott administration blames the tiny remnant of the unvaccinated for “70% of hospitalizations” and wants employers to crack down on unvaccinated workers and (in some industries) customers.
Vax passports or testing will be required of every lawmaker and State House staffer, under a draft plan approved yesterday. It will be “strongly recommended” for visitors.
