But language and cultural barriers make it difficult to get the message out.
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Health and lifestyle stories from the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine hospitals scramble for supplies, try to build capacity quickly
The hospitals are canceling all non-critical procedures and banking on social distancing to reduce demand for their limited number of beds.
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Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Italian death toll overtakes China’s as virus spreads
Italy has the world’s second-oldest population, and the vast majority of its dead – 87% – were over 70.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Scarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Coronavirus how-to: How to clean your gadgets
Your cellphone is a germ factory.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S.
What happens next depends largely on us all making tiny decisions on an daily basis with outsize consequences for our collective future.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn
CMHC says it can’t provide COVID-19 tests to show people are healthy
Central Maine Healthcare says it faces a barrage of test requests from people seeking to show their bosses they don’t have the disease.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Coronavirus how-to: How do I clean and disinfect properly?
They aren’t the same thing.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Gov. Mills closes restaurant dining rooms and bars, prohibits social gatherings of more than 10
The governor issues the executive order, which runs through March 31, after the number of coronavirus cases in the state goes from zero to 42 in less than a week.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Coronavirus hits as Maine struggles to rebuild public health system
Key positions that were not filled during the LePage administration remain vacant even as the need for them increases.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
To keep seniors safe at home, Medicare expands telemedicine
The policy change was set in motion under the Trump administration’s emergency declarations.