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The state of Vermont took a server offline as a result of being among 18,000 computer users affected by a nationwide cyberattack, Chief Information Officer John Quinn said Tuesday morning.
Yesterday, a sophisticated attack “compromised security firm FireEye, the US Treasury and Commerce departments and likely many more victims,” Malwarebytes.com reports.
“Threat actors hacked into IT company SolarWinds in order to use its software channel to push out malicious updates onto 18,000 of its Orion platform customers. This scenario, referred to as a supply-chain attack, is perhaps the most devious and difficult to detect as it relies on software that has already been trusted and that can be widely distributed at once,” Malwarebytes said.
1st vaccine shipment goes to UVM medical center, state
December 14, 2020 GMT
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) Vermont received the first installment of a COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, which will be distributed to hospitals through the state.
Vermont received 1,950 doses, the first part of a weekly 5,850-dose shipment expected through December.
The University of Vermont Medical Center and the state each received 975 doses Monday. On Tuesday, the Health Department will receive an additional 1,950 doses, and another 1,950 doses will ship later this week directly to pharmacies that have contracted with the federal government to administer vaccines at long-term care facilities.
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“This is an important milestone and an essential step toward defeating a virus that’s devastated families and businesses throughout Vermont and around the globe,” Gov. Phil Scott said in a statement. “There is no better, safer or faster way to defeat this virus and work to rebuild our economy than
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines created by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are officially in Vermont, and thousands have already been inoculated against the virus.
On Dec. 15, the first Vermonter to get vaccinated was an emergency department nurse at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Since then, the first wave of vaccination efforts have focused on health care workers and residents and employees of long-term care facilities.
Here s what to know about the vaccine and who can get it now that it s here.
What does vaccine arrival look like?
As of Dec. 29, the state has been allocated about 32,000 doses of the two vaccines available for distribution, Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike Smith said. The Pfizer vaccine began arriving in Vermont on Dec. 14, and the Moderna vaccine on Dec. 22.
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A big step forward : First shipments of COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Vermont
Nearly 2,000 doses of vaccine received Monday Share Updated: 5:08 PM EST Dec 14, 2020 Jake Cookson
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