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Coronavirus

Published
May 5, 2023

With COVID-19 public health emergency ending, Maine CDC website to stop updating vaccination numbers

The state will still update COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations and deaths.
Published
May 5, 2023

WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it’s no longer global emergency

The pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year, and most countries have returned to life before COVID-19.
Published
May 1, 2023

U.S. to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week

Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11.
Published
April 26, 2023

MaineHealth drops COVID-19 masking requirement

Masks are no longer required at MaineHealth or Northern Light Health medical facilities statewide, effectively putting an end to the emergency measure in most situations 3 years after the pandemic began.
Published
April 20, 2023

Northern Light Health drops universal masking policy in medical facilities

The move by Maine's second largest health care network comes as the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 has dropped to the lowest level since August 2021.

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Published
April 10, 2023

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.
Published
April 6, 2023

Uptake of bivalent COVID-19 boosters low in Maine, but still higher than most of the country

Nearly a third of all Mainers ages 5 years and older have received the omicron-targeting bivalent booster shot compared to less than 18% of individuals nationwide.
Published
April 2, 2023

Gov. Mills tests positive for COVID-19

Sunday's announcement represents the second time Maine's governor has contracted COVID-19 within the past year.
Published
March 16, 2023

U.S. pregnancy deaths dropped in 2022, after COVID spike

Officials say the 2022 maternal death rate is on track to get close to pre-pandemic levels. But that's not great: The rate before COVID-19 was the highest it had been in decades.
Published
March 12, 2023

3 years later, the pandemic cocoon is giving way to social butterflies

Long after Maine's first case of coronavirus, communal activities and gatherings are reaching pre-pandemic levels again, though troubling remnants of isolation persist.