Preliminary trends in other parts of the Northeast indicate that Maine could see a downturn in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Front-line health care workers more strained than ever during omicron surge
Nearly two years after COVID-19 first hit Maine, the pandemic is putting an enormous burden on the state’s health care workers and system.
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Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn
Central Maine Medical Center receives help from federal COVID-19 response team
Gov. Janet Mills also announced the deployment of additional members of the Maine National Guard to support hospitals.
Posted inHealth, Maine
Hundreds press Maine lawmakers to ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates
Legislators hear from fearful residents who want to block mandates on COVID-19 vaccines, which have been proven to be safe and to prevent more serious illness.
Posted inHealth, Nation / World
Fauci, Walensky testify while omicron prompts many possible changes
Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Gov. Mills to send 169 more National Guard members to help Maine’s hospitals
It is the second time in a month that Mills has announced the deployment of Guard members to assist hospitals.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Schools & Education
With surge in COVID cases, many southern Maine school districts return to remote learning
Schools in Biddeford, Saco, Kennebunk, Brunswick, Gorham, Scarborough, Windham and Portland are among those making the switch.
Posted inFranklin, Health
Franklin Memorial Hospital to reduce services temporarily due to spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations
Officials say services at Farmington hospital to be reduced to emergency and acutely ill patients.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Drugs to treat high-risk patients in critically short supply as omicron surge hits Maine
A national shortage leaves Maine’s doctors with a tiny fraction of the monoclonal antibody treatments their patients could use.
Posted inHealth, Nation / World
U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient, a medical 1st
The patient knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but he was dying, ineligible for a human heart transplant and had no other option, his son said.