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Health and lifestyle stories from the Portland Press Herald.
Liberty University welcomes students back to campus amid coronavirus outbreak
Jerry Falwell Jr., the school’s president, says the university is taking precautions in consultation with health experts.
Crafters make masks to bolster dwindling hospital supplies
While the state hasn’t recommended that hospital workers use handmade masks, Facebook groups are filling requests from health care providers.
Key medical glove factories cutting staff 50% amid virus
Malaysia, the world’s largest medical glove supplier, stopped all manufacturing last week and factories have had to seek exemptions to reopen.
For New York, 58-cent medical masks now priced at $7.50 each
Hospitals have been forced to search the black market for essential equipment.
Border towns see run on drug touted by Trump but unproven as coronavirus cure
The demand in Mexico is so high that pharmacists now require written prescriptions that state the medicine is for patients with conditions for which hydroxychloroquine is normally used.
Volunteers sew masks for health workers facing shortages
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire is preparing kits with fabric and elastic while Joann Stores is making all of its 800-plus locations available for people to make masks and hospital gowns.
Can blood from coronavirus survivors treat the newly ill?
Plasma infusions were used most famously during the 1918 flu pandemic.
What you need to know about coronavirus testing in Maine
Limited testing supplies have shifted CDC guidelines for who should be tested, but the decision still rests with physicians.
The coronavirus isn’t alive. That’s why it’s so hard to kill.
This novel coronavirus is a sneaky variety similar to those that have been responsible for the most destructive outbreaks of the last 100 years.