Nick Isgro says he wants the city’s COVID-19 Task Force to ask the City Council to lift the ban on plastic, disposable shopping bags and to temporarily prohibit the use of reusable shopping bags.
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Happy 200th birthday to Maine, but virus zaps the celebration
The state is celebrating the bicentennial of its liberation from Massachusetts, with or without a party.
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Districts announce school closings due to coronavirus
Several school districts announced in letters sent to parents Sunday morning that all classes and school activities will be postponed, beginning Monday, March 16.
Posted inNation / World
Coronavirus latest: In U.S., coronavirus vaccine test opens with first doses
Four healthy volunteers are injected Monday with an experimental vaccine at a Seattle research institute.
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Restaurants double down on safety as coronavirus arrives in Maine
As concern over the virus grows, restaurants work to alleviate customers’ fears and to prepare themselves for what may come.
Posted inMaine
Maine island life in the age of coronavirus
Residents of Chebeague are accustomed to planning ahead and pulling together, but they are at the very end of critical supply chains.
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Reds’ Trevor Bauer organizing ‘sandlot’ game in Arizona
Cincinnati pitcher trying to raise $1 million for Major League Baseball game-day staff who could be affected by the league’s decision to delay the regular season because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Posted inPerspective
We need to inoculate against ‘alternate facts’ to fight COVID-19
Donald Trump’s smoke machine has been running full blast, puffing out misinformation to play down the danger of the Coronavirus epidemic in an effort to reverse the stock market’s plunge and increase his chances of re-election. But neither the COVID-19 virus nor the stock market are paying attention to what Trump has to say about the epidemic and increasingly the public isn’t either. COVID-19, like all forms of microbial life, is following its own biological […]
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What’s the difference between pandemic, epidemic and outbreak?
The coronavirus is on everyone’s minds. As an epidemiologist, I find it interesting to hear people using technical terms – like quarantine or super spreader or reproductive number – that my colleagues and I use in our work every day. But I’m also hearing newscasters and neighbors alike mixing up three important words: outbreak, epidemic and pandemic. Simply put, the difference […]
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Four ways to protect ourselves from COVID-19
Editor’s note: The World Health Organization has declared that COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has a higher fatality rate than the flu. Brian Labus, a professor of public health, provides essential safety information for you, from disinfectants to storing food and supplies.