coronavirus maine

Published
January 18, 2023

The Conversation: Parents in the US had alarmingly high rates of anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic – and that has a direct effect on kids
Published
September 22, 2022

Biotechnology now employs nearly 10,000 workers in Maine

An industry report said jobs with life sciences companies in the state have an average salary of more than $100,000.
Published
August 24, 2022

Federal judge approves plan to reimburse Maine inmates who lost unemployment benefits

The state will return more than $163,000 in seized unemployment benefits to 54 people who were incarcerated in Maine in 2020 and barred from the state's work-release program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published
April 25, 2022

COVID-19 hospitalizations increase sharply in Maine

Still, public health experts are not projecting a return to the winter surges that the omicron wave caused in Maine and the U.S.
Published
April 19, 2022

Maine transit agencies drop mask requirement

Starting Wednesday, passengers on public transportation in southern Maine will no longer have to wear masks after a federal judge struck down a nationwide face covering mandate.
Published
March 6, 2022

The pandemic effect: Personal stories of change
Published
February 19, 2022

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to drop; state reports 50 deaths from January

As new numbers slow, the Maine CDC continues to sort through a backlog from the height of the omicron surge.
Published
January 24, 2022

Some Midcoast schools report dip in COVID-19 cases

Health experts say it's too early to know whether Maine has reached its peak in the pandemic.
Published
January 24, 2022

Gov. Mills calls White House, gets more COVID-19 treatments for Maine despite undercount of cases

Maine has been getting a smaller allocation of a monoclonal antibody treatment because of a large backlog of positive tests that have yet to be screened and added to the daily total of confirmed new cases.
Published
January 23, 2022

Backlog of positive tests reduces Maine’s ration of lifesaving COVID-19 drug

With tens of thousands of test results waiting to be processed, the state's case rate is artificially low, and that is reducing Maine's federal allocation of monoclonal antibody treatment.