Schools & Education
Coronavirus updates
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Schools & Education
University of Maine System lifts COVID vaccine mandate
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Schools & Education
Maine community colleges stop requiring COVID-19 vaccine
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Maine
Schools prepare for more illness after outbreak at Cape Elizabeth
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Schools & Education
Cape Elizabeth High School closed Friday because of COVID-19 outbreak
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Schools & Education
Maine students’ math and reading scores plummet during pandemic
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Schools & Education
National student test scores plunged during the pandemic
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Health care
School year begins with COVID in the rearview mirror
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Maine
Maine libraries get $1.7 million in COVID relief funds to support remote work
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Maine
Puritan Medical Products announces layoffs affecting more than 200 in Pittsfield
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Crime
Court ‘blitz’ underway in effort to tackle backlog of criminal cases in Kennebec County
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Maine
Court grants new life to lawsuit challenging Maine’s vaccine mandate for health care workers
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Business
Masks are out at In-N-Out after burger chain bans employees from wearing them in 5 states
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Gene variant may be why some test positive for virus with no COVID symptoms
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Business
Abbott Labs lays off another 199 workers at Westbrook COVID-test plant
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End of COVID emergency highlights U.S. weakness in tracking outbreaks
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Health care
With COVID-19 public health emergency ending, Maine CDC website to stop updating vaccination numbers
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WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it’s no longer global emergency
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Maine
MaineHealth drops COVID-19 masking requirement
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Health care
Northern Light Health drops universal masking policy in medical facilities
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Nation / World
Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
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Health care
Uptake of bivalent COVID-19 boosters low in Maine, but still higher than most of the country
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Maine
Gov. Mills tests positive for COVID-19
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Maine
3 years later, the pandemic cocoon is giving way to social butterflies
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Nation / World
House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19
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Maine
Maine officials believed relief checks were tax exempt – but never asked the IRS
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Business
Tax season thrown into chaos as IRS weighs taxing Maine relief checks
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Business
To-go alcoholic drinks may be here to stay
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Maine
Dr. Shah to attend State of the Union as he prepares for new federal role
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Business
Abbott Labs laying off most temporary workers in Westbrook
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Health care
President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
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Nation / World
U.S. proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans
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Maine
Numbers lag among Maine nursing home staff for receiving the latest COVID booster
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Health care
New COVID-19 variant spreads in Maine, but hospitalizations not expected to spike
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Health care
As the search for treatments continues, many Maine patients still struggle with long COVID
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Health care
Nursing homes risk another wave of COVID deaths as vaccinations lag
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Health care
Influenza cases continue to surge in Maine
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Health care
Children’s medicine shortage hits as flu season starts fast
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Religion & Values
After pandemic hiatus, Maine’s Jews looking forward to Hanukkah celebrations
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Nation / World
In major shift, China eases up on zero-COVID policy
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Health care
Pfizer asks FDA to clear updated COVID shot for kids under 5
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Maine
RSV may be peaking in Maine, but flu hospitalizations are on the rise
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Business
Twitter ends enforcement of COVID misinformation policy
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Nation / World
China eases some COVID rules after widespread protests, demands for president to resign
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Health care
COVID deaths skew older, reviving questions about ‘acceptable loss’
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After a year, omicron still driving COVID surges and worries
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Unlike last two falls, COVID infections decline in Maine
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Health care
State’s top health officials encourage Mainers to stock up on at-home COVID tests ahead of holidays
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Health care
Soaring RSV cases raise fears about hospital capacity with COVID rising and flu looming
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Business
Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine will cost $110-$130 per dose
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Business
Why Hugo’s won’t reopen but Portland fine dining will live on
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Health care
Wastewater surveillance remains a novel, yet important, tool for tracking the pandemic
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Health care
Maine hospitals receive $25 million in pandemic recovery funds as patient counts rise again
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Nation / World
COVID-19 linked to increase in U.S. pregnancy-related deaths
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Health care
Whites are now more likely to die from covid than Blacks. Here’s why the pandemic shifted.
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Health care
Outbreak of COVID-19 reported in Rumford Community Home
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Health care
U.S. clears updated COVID boosters for kids