The Maine Principals’ Association releases its winter sports guidelines and strongly recommends vaccinations, wearing masks and pooled testing for all athletes.
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Scientist who advocated probing lab-leak theory of COVID-19 origin says evidence points to Wuhan market
Michael Worobey said the locations and occupations of the first known patients point to a market origin, with the virus radiating outward into the city of 11 million.
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Europe goes after the unvaccinated to fight winter COVID surge
The moves mark a dramatic escalation in the campaign to increase vaccination rates, an effort that’s been given fresh impetus by the latest surge in COVID cases.
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U.S. to help boost COVID-19 vaccine production for poorer countries
The Biden administration believes the boosted capacity of COVID-19 shots will help ease a global shortage of doses, particularly in lower- and middle-income nations.
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Mills opens eligibility for COVID vaccine boosters to all adults amid record cases and hospitalizations
The governor’s announcement comes on the same day Maine reported a single-day record 1,042 new cases of COVID-19.
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Maine’s COVID-19 surge intensifies as cases, deaths and hospitalizations mount
Transmission of the virus appears to be speeding up in Maine heading into Thanksgiving week, when many will gather indoors.
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Maine sets all-time high for COVID-19 hospitalizations
As of Friday, 248 people were in the hospital, eclipsing the previous mark, set in late September.
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Dental practices, EMS workers left out of Maine’s final vaccine mandate
A final version of the mandate was officially issued Wednesday, after a 90-day period for comments.
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COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations keep rising as winter approaches
Hospitalizations have increased to near-record levels.
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Kids vaccine campaign gets off to strong start, but challenges loom
About 900,000 kids aged 5-11 will have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in their first week of eligibility, the White House said Wednesday.