The news comes as some restaurants nationwide have struggled in recent weeks to stay open because of staff being infected from the highly transmissible omicron variant.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, News
COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline, led by drop in ICU patients
Some hospitals are still struggling, however, and the federal government is sending a COVID-19 ‘surge team’ to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
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Posted inFranklin, Schools & Education
RSU 9 board considers yet another update to COVID-19 isolation policies
Directors will vote on one of two options at a special meeting Tuesday.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine Lives Lost: Artist’s family grieves ‘hero’ after long battle with COVID
Perry Clark, 61, who worked out of a studio he created in the garage of his Buxton home, didn’t get vaccinated and spent 47 days in the hospital after he got COVID-19.
Posted inHealth, Nation / World, News
Unvaccinated patient of Boston hospital denied heart transplant
Brigham and Women’s Hospital says the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several immunizations required by most U.S. transplant programs.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn
COVID-19 testing center to open in Auburn
As the pandemic eases slightly in Maine, three more testing sites are opening statewide, including one at the YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston’s Outdoor Learning & Education Center at 151 Stetson Road.
Posted inNation / World
Vaccine mandate to kick in for first wave of U.S. health workers
The Biden administration requirement is welcomed by some, but others fear it will worsen already serious staff shortages if employees quit their jobs rather than comply.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Omicron on the decline in Oxford Hills – for now
PARIS — After the number of positive COVID cases in Oxford Hills schools approached 200 last week, as of Monday the number stood at 134. School Administrative District 17’s online tracker does not currently break-out results of home tests. The revised quarantine guidance from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Maine Department of Education […]
Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times, Schools & Education
Student cases of COVID-19 quadruple in RSU 56
Infections rose from 18 to 75 from Jan. 11-25 in Dixfield area schools.
Posted inMaine
Maine COVID-19 positive test backlog swells to 56,000, and wastewater testing expands
Hospitalizations, meanwhile, dropped for a 3rd day in a row, another sign that the omicron surge may be easing.