Nearly half of the facility’s residents have COVID-19.
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Posted inFranklin, Health, News
Franklin Memorial Hospital implements more stringent visitor restrictions
Move to prevent community spread of COVID-19, safeguard colleagues.
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Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Maine CDC reports 204 new virus cases, a single-day record
This is the first time Maine has had more than 200 new cases in a day.
Posted inHealth, Nation / World
Pfizer says early findings signal its COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective
The pharmaceutical company is now on track to apply later this month for emergency-use approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn
64 test positive for COVID-19 at Lewiston nursing home
If all of the facility’s beds are full, more than 40% of residents at Russell Park Rehabilitation and Living Center have the virus.
Posted inHealth, Maine
COVID-19 inpatients increasing rapidly, especially at hospitals in central and eastern Maine
MaineGeneral in Augusta, the state’s busiest hospital for coronavirus, hits an all-time peak.
Posted inFranklin, Health, Maine
Nine Farmington hospital workers test positive for COVID-19
The outbreak at Franklin Memorial Hospital started last week with four cases.
Posted inFranklin, Health, Schools & Education
Woman’s death linked to COVID-19 outbreak at Farmington nursing home
A Lewiston nursing home and three area school systems also have cases or exposures to the virus.
Posted inHealth, Nation / World, News
Top Trump adviser urges ‘more aggressive action’ against virus as president downplays threat
Contradicting the president, Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, warns, ‘We are entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic.’
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Farmington nursing home center of COVID-19 outbreak
Seven residents and one staff member have tested positive for the virus at Sandy River Center.