As of June 11, Vermont has seen an new COVID-19 outbreak in Winooski due to family and friends gathering. We want to keep everyone safe here at Equinox Village and urge you to continue following the guidelines set forth by the CDC and Governor Scott.

We value how active our residents are. It’s one of the great things about our community. With that said, the more active each of us becomes in the outside community, the more at risk we are to becoming exposed to COVID-19 and thus bringing it back to Equinox Village.

We want to acknowledge that there is a degree of uncertainty regarding what is safe and unsafe right now. As you know restaurants, retail and other businesses are beginning to open. The weather is finally nice enough to spend more time outside. Vermont has fortunately maintained low numbers of confirmed COVID cases.

We want to do everything we can to prevent residents from acquiring this disease and to keep it from spreading throughout the building. It is for that reason that at this point, we feel it is in the best interest of all residents to not start loosening our guidelines yet. If this disease enters our building, with a resident or staff person becoming ill, we may need instead to add precautions and restrictions, so please bear with us for a few more weeks to be safe.

Even though businesses are opening up in May and restrictions are being loosened, this virus has not gone away. It is still here and it is still hitting neighboring states, some very hard. Please do not think that we are in the clear and it is safe to come and go as we had back in February.

An update from Kirt Sampson on COVID-19 as of April 24, 2020 regarding wearing masks in public and Governor Scott’s guidance as of 4/24/20.