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PublishedFebruary 28, 2022
Some Maine schools to ditch masks while others wait for state guidance
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed masking guidelines Friday, but Maine officials have yet to indicate whether state recommendations will change.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2022
Shah: Maine health officials working to manage COVID-19 so it is no longer a crisis
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, tells Waterville Rotary Club 'we're not going to eliminate COVID' and 'it is going to be a fact of all of our lives.'
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2022
New version of omicron detected in Maine as wastewater tests show steep decline in COVID-19
Portland's wastewater plants show declines of 98% and 97% since early January.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
New ‘WellNurse’ program will offer care to the caregivers
Developed by the nursing program at the University at Maine, it's intended to reduce stress and burnout.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Maine nursing schools see enrollments rise amid pandemic
Students preparing for hospital careers say they aren't discouraged by the pressures of the pandemic, and instead are eager to help.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2022
Violence against hospital staff has ‘more than doubled’ in past few years, St. Mary’s psychiatry chief says
Staff at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center's behavioral emergency department are seeing more psychiatric patients than ever before. And sometimes, those patients get violent with staff.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2022
Many healthy Americans, including students in school, can take a break from masks, CDC says
Most of Maine remains at high risk under the new guidelines and masks are still recommended indoors in 13 of the state’s 16 counties.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2022
As nurses call attention to emergency room violence, Maine Medical Center steps up support
Nurses and hospital officials say the emergency department is facing more pressures from a growing number of patients with mental illnesses, some of whom can be violent.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2022
Maine’s pandemic death toll passes 2,000 while COVID hospitalizations drop to 4-month low
As Maine hospitalizations drop below 200 patients for the first time since October, the state reports 53 additional deaths from a review of vital records.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2022
Maine Med emergency department nurses to protest ‘workplace violence’
A union official says, ‘They have been kicked, hit, spit upon and concussed at the hands of patients.’
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