Orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and the no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service.

I could take time off from my job to recover without forgoing pay. Millions aren’t so fortunate.

Restricting searches on terms like ‘COVID’ is a flawed response to the challenge social platforms face balancing public safety and free expression.

The vaccine is recommended for everyone ages 6 months and older and some pharmacies are offering limited appointments for the shots.

While some individual schools and colleges have implemented temporary mask requirements, federal and state leaders don't appear to be considering widespread COVID-19 restrictions with the pandemic over.

Federal regulators approved the latest COVID-19 vaccine this week, and shots are expected to be available within days.

Experts worry that immunity from previous vaccinations and infections is fading in many people, and a new shot would save many lives.

A scathing federal report has found New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, violating their constitutional rights to reasonable care while in state custody.

Anyone still dragging their heels on booster shots should reconsider in a few weeks.

Case counts are up to roughly 50 to 150 positive tests reported a day and wastewater testing is showing much higher concentrations in most Maine counties, including a large spike in Cumberland County.

According to the investigation, former Sen. Andy Sanborn fraudulently obtained $844,000 in funding from the Small Business Administration between December 2021 and February 2022.

In many people, long COVID may actually be ‘long Lyme,’ and better diagnosis and treatment of both diseases are vital – especially in Maine, with the nation’s highest Lyme rate.

While only about a dozen cases of the new BA.2.86 variant have been reported worldwide – including three in the U.S. – experts say this variant requires intense monitoring.

There has been no comprehensive debrief on how federal and local governments messed this up.

Latest booster shot targeting the Eris variant should be available in late September or early October.

I wasn’t prepared for my COVID symptoms to include visions of flying mammals.

Attributing an increase in cases to people moving indoors doesn’t make much sense. What does?

Coronavirus subvariant EG.5, nicknamed 'Eris,' is a descendant of Omicron, and it is also becoming dominant in Britain.

The 39 public libraries are scattered around the state and will receive $5,000 to $100,000 apiece.

Homeless kids often fell through the cracks during the tumult of the COVID pandemic, when many schools struggled to keep track of families with unstable housing.

Employees could face disciplinary action, including being fired, if they do not comply, a company memo says.

Scientists found a common version of an immunity gene that seems to help some people clear the virus faster.

The long-awaited intelligence report also serves as a reproach to the news organizations that bought into the theory, despite the utter lack of evidence for it.

Based in Guilford, Puritan had become one of the top two swab manufacturers in the world, but orders have decreased dramatically as the COVID-19 pandemic has receded, forcing the company to downsize.

The caseload in Kennebec County courts is 67% higher than it was pre-pandemic, with 2,343 cases pending.

Student scores released Wednesday by the National Assessment of Educational Progress show the single largest drop in math in 50 years.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has reimbursed Maine more than $282 million for coronavirus-related expenses.

Sixty-six cases of COVID-19 have been reported since May 14 among staff and residents at St. Joseph's Rehabilitation and Residence.

Three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court's decision to throw out a legal challenge to the state's COVID-19 mandate for health care workers.

The company, one of the largest makers of screening tests for the disease, has been scaling back as demand for the products has dwindled, laying off more than 800 people over the last 2 years.

In Maine, Shah was a great communicator and a true public servant, which is just what the CDC needs.

Look to a country’s medical profile, not its national wealth, for protection against coronavirus mortality.

While the White House has threatened to veto Republican’s debt ceiling bill, the administration has signaled a willingness to consider other budget caps.

The winding down of the Biden administration’s coronavirus response highlights long-standing vulnerabilities of system that fails to provide reliable information in disease outbreaks, experts warn.

The state will still update COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations and deaths.

The pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year, and most countries have returned to life before COVID-19.

Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11.

Masks are no longer required at MaineHealth or Northern Light Health medical facilities statewide, effectively putting an end to the emergency measure in most situations 3 years after the pandemic began.

The move by Maine's second largest health care network comes as the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 has dropped to the lowest level since August 2021.

The shots would be available for people who are at least 65 years old or immune-compromised.

The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.

Nearly a third of all Mainers ages 5 years and older have received the omicron-targeting bivalent booster shot compared to less than 18% of individuals nationwide.

The Biden administration is moving to make the shot available for older people and those with impaired immune systems.

A federal program that provided more than $370 billion, mostly in low-interest loans, is at risk of suffering significant losses.

Sunday's announcement represents the second time Maine's governor has contracted COVID-19 within the past year.

While stimulant prescriptions as a whole increased modestly from 2016 to 2021, they rose by more than 10% in the last year of that time frame for adults and teenage girls.

The bill requires the declassification of as much information as possible on potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19.

Officials say the 2022 maternal death rate is on track to get close to pre-pandemic levels. But that's not great: The rate before COVID-19 was the highest it had been in decades.

Long after Maine's first case of coronavirus, communal activities and gatherings are reaching pre-pandemic levels again, though troubling remnants of isolation persist.