Scribbled notes capture initial Vermont response to COVID-19 pandemic

In the first days of the pandemic Scott administration staffers, and a handful of former officials recruited to help, spent hours in a Waterbury conference room to hatch a plan. The evidence is still on the walls. Mike Smith, secretary of the Agency of Human Services, said the notes and scribbles reflect the scope of the job — including building overflow ‘surge capacity’ in the health care system, protecting the elderly and acquiring scare…