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Delta's Spreading, Schools Start Soon: Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine Answers Your COVID Questions

A photo of a sign reading COVID-19 precautions with a recommendation for unvaccinated people to wear masks, which is attached to a poultry cage inside a barn
Jane Lindholm
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VPR
A sign urging COVID-19 precautions (and offering vaccines) is displayed in the chicken tent at the Addison County Fair and Field Days event last week.

As the COVID-19 delta variant spreads, case counts and hospitalizations are on the rise both in Vermont and across the country. It's all happening as students prepare to head back to school in the coming weeks. As we all pay more attention to COVID-19, Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine takes your calls and answers your questions about COVID-19, the delta variant of the virus, masking and more.

Our guest is:

  • Dr. Mark Levine, Health Commissioner for the Vermont Health Department

Broadcast live on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021 at 9 a.m.

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A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
Matt Smith worked for Vermont Public from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.