While one-time hot spots like Florida and Louisiana are improving, infection rates are soaring in Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee, fueled by children now back in school, loose mask restrictions and low vaccination levels.
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Posted inHealth, Local & State
Mainers younger than 20 now account for nearly half of state’s new COVID cases
The state reported 319 cases among people under 20 years old, a 3-day total that is the highest for that group in any report during the pandemic.
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Posted inNation & World, Uncategorized
FDA experts among group opposing U.S. booster shot plan
An international group of scientists is arguing the average person doesn’t need a COVID-19 booster yet.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Most Maine school districts have yet to start pooled testing for COVID-19
Some districts that have yet to launch pooled testing say they expected a lag between the start of school and the start of testing to allow time to set up and solicit permission from parents.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Skowhegan-area automobile dealerships host free COVID-19 vaccination clinic
The Hight Family of Dealerships has teamed up with Redington-Fairview General Hospital to provide a free COVID-19 vaccination clinic Friday as part of the effort to vaccinate more Somerset County residents.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Maine has record number of COVID patients on ventilators
In two weeks, the number of infected people who need ventilators to breathe has jumped from 28 to 40.
Posted inLocal & State
Abbott, Puritan prepared to ‘ramp up’ production in Maine amid testing surge
Maine factories operated by the two companies produced swabs and test kits that were critical to the nation’s COVID-19 testing capability.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Gorham native leads team conducting sequencing of COVID-19 tests to detect variants
UMaine grad Ryan Tewhey, a human genetics researcher, took his dream job at The Jackson Laboratory in 2017. Things haven’t played out how he imagined so far, but he’s OK with that.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Coronavirus pandemic edges toward grim milestone
For more than a century, the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the deadliest in our history, a record that will soon be broken by COVID.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
COVID-19 quarantines disrupt return to school, with remote options limited
Maine school districts are scrambling all over again to set up technology, remote learning and pooled testing as kids are forced back home.