Why won’t the Vermont CDC report non resident cases?

It started with out of staters. Now they aren’t included in the numbers. So let’s be clear: as of 3/17/2020 there are SEVEN out of staters in VT with virus and 10 “Vermonters”. Let’s just be transparent and say 17 in VT. Trying to “smoke screen” the total is not helpful to anyone, in my view. Thank you.

You will see a lot of speculation on the web that there must be 10 or 20 times as many infected people in any given jurisdiction as there are reported cases. Yet 485 out of 495 Vermont residents tested for novel coronavirus infection — presumably because of some combination of travel, exposure and clinical history — and probably mostly fairly recently, when test kits have become available — have had negative results. This does not suggest that unrecognized cases are very common.

I see a lot of out of state coming to Vermont because there area has been shut down or has an outbreak. I can’t believe that can’t stay home instead of being the virus to areas that have not been infected.

I would like the health authorities to release the towns for the positive cases. In a state this size that information would still not identify individuals but it would provide useful information for others in their effort to avoid spreading the virus.

VT is not immune to disease. Blaming people from other states seems rather odd to me. If you think the boundary of a state line drawn in the dirt or a state population is immune to this outbreak it proves that the education of the state’s population is lacking. You don’t think medical professionals and virologists are traveling from all over the country to help over “state lines”?
Humans are going to travel regardless of their state of origin. All you can do is become educated on how you can remain as healthy as possible.

It would also be helpful to have more than numbers. Prior to yesterday, we were being informed as to the age, location and status (home v hospital and which hospital) of the victims of this virus.

The feds won’t give us any straight talk. We depend on the press to tell us the non-alternative facts. Don’t let the “government” obfuscate and B.S the peeps into oblivion.

We are NOT testing people that have all the novel coronavirus symptoms but do not meet the criteria: travelled outside the country or been in contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 with the exception of those so sick they are in the hospital. People in the community have novel coronavirus but symptoms are mild to moderate so they are at home. They are not being tested or monitored and their family members are not quarantined. This is why social distancing is so important right now.

This gigantic over response of stopping the entire state’s life and economy, will go into the
“Progressive Hall of Shame” . Striking the business economy a devastating blow, and brushing all levels of education, and the huge support networks that families rely on daily ALL blown into the weeds,………
This Will be silently regretted for a LONG time.

We are a tiny state, people. We travel out of state just as much as out-of-staters visit here. We’re all in this together. Enough with the flatlander-phobia.

Residents, survivors, in Italy and China are already saying that this is not only NOT an overreaction, but that what the US and state governments and populations are doing is NOT enough. Someone here seems to have it backwards. We’ve already seen the level this can, and has reached.

It might help people a lot more if we could have more information about locations of the people found positive.

You have to qualify Based on being sick enough and exhibiting symptoms to even take the test. What the reporter is trying to say is that there are likely people who are having mild symptoms to totally asymptomatic that are walking around spreading the virus unabated, nevermind the fact that it could take 1-2 weeks of being infected and contagious before symptoms even show up.