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Vermont's COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise, but health officials will soon sunset the state's virus dashboard. Here's what to expect next from the pandemic.

The Green Mountain Care Board rejected a request by UVM Health Network to raise its rates by 10 percent, and will only allow a reduced increase.

The Green Mountain Care Board has finalized its budgetary targets for 2023, and some hospitals say inflation will make it hard to meet those benchmarks.

Late last month, almost 2,000 Vermonters got letters in the mail saying the University of Vermont Health Network will soon no longer accept their insurance. They’ll have to go elsewhere for medical care starting April 1.

Hospitals across the state remain very busy, even as the state boasts one of the lowest COVID hospitalization rates in the country.

People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But with the current huge volume of patients, hospitals are still struggling to treat them all.

The surge in new COVID patients appears to be subsiding, but new challenges continue to arise. Dozens of patients are stuck in the hospital, waiting to get into nursing homes. And blood supplies have reached critical lows.

Vermont hospitals are approaching capacity as they treat a record number of COVID patients. Staff anticipate they'll be able to handle the surge.

Vermont hospitals have reached their highest rates of admitted COVID patients throughout the pandemic � exceeding 100 each day for much of the past week.

VPR is checking in with hospital leaders across the state each week of January to see how medical centers are doing amid the COVID surge fueled by the omicron variant.