While only about a dozen cases of the new BA.2.86 variant have been reported worldwide – including three in the U.S. – experts say this variant requires intense monitoring.

There has been no comprehensive debrief on how federal and local governments messed this up.

Latest booster shot targeting the Eris variant should be available in late September or early October.

I wasn’t prepared for my COVID symptoms to include visions of flying mammals.

Attributing an increase in cases to people moving indoors doesn’t make much sense. What does?

Coronavirus subvariant EG.5, nicknamed 'Eris,' is a descendant of Omicron, and it is also becoming dominant in Britain.

The 39 public libraries are scattered around the state and will receive $5,000 to $100,000 apiece.

Homeless kids often fell through the cracks during the tumult of the COVID pandemic, when many schools struggled to keep track of families with unstable housing.

Employees could face disciplinary action, including being fired, if they do not comply, a company memo says.

Scientists found a common version of an immunity gene that seems to help some people clear the virus faster.

The long-awaited intelligence report also serves as a reproach to the news organizations that bought into the theory, despite the utter lack of evidence for it.

Based in Guilford, Puritan had become one of the top two swab manufacturers in the world, but orders have decreased dramatically as the COVID-19 pandemic has receded, forcing the company to downsize.

The caseload in Kennebec County courts is 67% higher than it was pre-pandemic, with 2,343 cases pending.

Student scores released Wednesday by the National Assessment of Educational Progress show the single largest drop in math in 50 years.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has reimbursed Maine more than $282 million for coronavirus-related expenses.

Sixty-six cases of COVID-19 have been reported since May 14 among staff and residents at St. Joseph's Rehabilitation and Residence.

Three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court's decision to throw out a legal challenge to the state's COVID-19 mandate for health care workers.

The company, one of the largest makers of screening tests for the disease, has been scaling back as demand for the products has dwindled, laying off more than 800 people over the last 2 years.

In Maine, Shah was a great communicator and a true public servant, which is just what the CDC needs.

Look to a country’s medical profile, not its national wealth, for protection against coronavirus mortality.

While the White House has threatened to veto Republican’s debt ceiling bill, the administration has signaled a willingness to consider other budget caps.

The winding down of the Biden administration’s coronavirus response highlights long-standing vulnerabilities of system that fails to provide reliable information in disease outbreaks, experts warn.

The state will still update COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations and deaths.

The pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year, and most countries have returned to life before COVID-19.

Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11.

Masks are no longer required at MaineHealth or Northern Light Health medical facilities statewide, effectively putting an end to the emergency measure in most situations 3 years after the pandemic began.

The move by Maine's second largest health care network comes as the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 has dropped to the lowest level since August 2021.

The shots would be available for people who are at least 65 years old or immune-compromised.

The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.

Nearly a third of all Mainers ages 5 years and older have received the omicron-targeting bivalent booster shot compared to less than 18% of individuals nationwide.

The Biden administration is moving to make the shot available for older people and those with impaired immune systems.

A federal program that provided more than $370 billion, mostly in low-interest loans, is at risk of suffering significant losses.

Sunday's announcement represents the second time Maine's governor has contracted COVID-19 within the past year.

While stimulant prescriptions as a whole increased modestly from 2016 to 2021, they rose by more than 10% in the last year of that time frame for adults and teenage girls.

The bill requires the declassification of as much information as possible on potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19.

Officials say the 2022 maternal death rate is on track to get close to pre-pandemic levels. But that's not great: The rate before COVID-19 was the highest it had been in decades.

Long after Maine's first case of coronavirus, communal activities and gatherings are reaching pre-pandemic levels again, though troubling remnants of isolation persist.

U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.

The system is still encouraging community members to get vaccinated and boosted.

Republicans broaden investigation into pandemic origin in wake of new minority assessment, even as other agencies still lean toward 'natural' outbreak.

President Biden in May 2021 asked intelligence agencies to probe the origins of the virus, but they were unable to reach a consensus.

Did COVID-19 originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab?

Even in small exchanges, Saturdayborn had a capacity 'to remind students how amazing it is that we get to be alive' her daughter said.

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.

The pandemic has added to the shortage and burnout of health care workers. Still, cause exists for some optimism: For one thing, there is bipartisan interest in tackling this issue.

Lawmakers who negotiated the payments say they believed the pandemic-era aid would be tax-free, but a Maine Revenue Service official says no such assurance was made.

Hundreds of thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are unaccounted for.

Even though some taxpayers already have filed, the state is one of nearly two dozen where federal officials have yet to determine whether the payments are taxable.

Despite objections from public health advocates, a legislative committee voted Wednesday in favor of permanently legalizing the pandemic-era practice of to-go cocktails, wine, and beer.

The system president says high vaccination rates in the state and improved outcomes for people who contract COVID-19 played a role in the decision.