Bennington County Ready To Respond to Coronavirus

Officials urged residents to continue utilizing Southwestern Vermont Medical Center for care, and talked about the hospital's efforts to mitigate the coronavirus, including through a planned hotline system, at a Select Board meeting on Monday.

Tom Dee, president and CEO of Southwestern Vermont Health Care, updated the Bennington Select Board on the hospital's response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the board's regularly scheduled meeting on Monday.

The Vermont Department of Health announced the state's first case of COVID-19 late Saturday night. It involves an adult patient being treated in an isolation unit at SVMC in Bennington.

Dee confirmed Monday that the patient is male.

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