Health
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
CDC urges ‘universal mask use’ indoors, except at home
Mask use is most important in indoor spaces where social distancing cannot be maintained, the U.S. agency says in a report.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2020
U.S. morgues and hospitals overflow during ‘very dark couple of weeks’
Health officials fear the crisis will be even worse in coming weeks, after many Americans ignored pleas to stay home over Thanksgiving and avoid people who don’t live with them.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2020
Skiing may not spread coronavirus but slopes still risky, UN health agency says
The danger of coronavirus spread from skiing is from many of the other activities linked to the sport, including riding ski lifts.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2020
Several Maine hospitals report record numbers of COVID-19 inpatients
As the surge continues, cases rise at Portland hospitals, but not as sharply as in Bangor, Augusta, Lewiston and York County.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2020
Pfizer seeks OK for emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine in U.S.
The public’s first chance to see how strong the evidence of its effectiveness really is will come in early December at a public meeting of the FDA’s scientific advisers.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2020
CDC pleads with people not to travel for Thanksgiving, as coronavirus cases surge
The federal agency holds its first news briefing in months, and officials said they are alarmed to see 1 million new cases reported across the United States within the past week.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2020
‘Tired to the bone’: U.S. hospitals overwhelmed with virus cases
The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 in the U.S. has doubled in the past month and set new records every day this week.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2020
What’s with the confusion over masks? Here’s a Q&A.
Since the coronavirus first appeared, authorities have gained a better understanding of how it spreads and how masks can help stop that spread.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2020
Maine tops New England for smoking, new lung cancer cases
Almost 18% of Maine people smoke, and that is 2.5 percentage points higher than the national average.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2020
Experts fear lessons from the H1N1 vaccine distribution in 2009 are being ignored
The most frequently cited lesson from the H1N1 response may already be hampering the upcoming distribution of the coronavirus vaccines: the danger of overly ambitious government messaging.
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