Health care
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2021
Virus variant from South Africa detected in U.S. for first time
There are concerns that this version spreads more easily and that vaccines could be less effective against it.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2021
Lewiston hospitals see record levels of virus inpatients, while numbers stay flat or fall elsewhere
There's no clear explanation for the shifting geography of hospitalizations, the Maine CDC says.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2021
Biden to drop Trump’s antiabortion ‘global gag rule.’ Here’s what that means for abortion access worldwide.
The decades of Washington-imposed whiplash have left sexual and reproductive health and rights programs around the world scrambling to secure funding.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2021
Corrections officers begin getting vaccine, and advocates say inmates should as well
The congregate setting puts incarcerated people at high risk and correctional facilities across the country have been hotspots for COVID-19 outbreaks, including Maine's two largest at a single site.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2021
Biden says he’s ‘bringing back the pros’ for virus briefings
The new president is dispatching the nation’s top scientists and public health experts to brief the American public regularly about the pandemic.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2021
Lyme disease cases could be 10 times higher than records show, CDC finds
Maine set a record in 2019 with 2,079 cases of the tick-borne illness, but a federal report suggests the actual number is much higher.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2021
White House seeks to buy 200 million more vaccine doses; states to get more next week
Even before any additional purchase, allocations to states and other jurisdictions will increase by about 16% next week, says the Biden administration.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2021
Biden to reopen ACA marketplaces to help millions who have lost insurance
The action is among several executive orders the president is issuing in his initial days to demonstrate he intends to steer government in a direction far different from that of his predecessor.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
Brunswick agency holds 1st drive-thru vaccination clinic in southern Maine
Independence Association and Guardian Pharmacy of Maine team up to vaccinate clients with intellectual and physical disabilities and their caregivers.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2021
Second coronavirus shot may come as long as 6 weeks later, CDC now says
The recommended interval between doses is three weeks for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and four weeks for Moderna's.
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