U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.
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University of Maine System lifts COVID vaccine mandate
The system is still encouraging community members to get vaccinated and boosted.
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‘Lab leak’ report energizes Republicans’ COVID-19 investigations
Republicans broaden investigation into pandemic origin in wake of new minority assessment, even as other agencies still lean toward ‘natural’ outbreak.
Posted inNation & World, News
What we know about the origin of COVID-19, and what remains a mystery
President Biden in May 2021 asked intelligence agencies to probe the origins of the virus, but they were unable to reach a consensus.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
COVID-19 origins still a mystery 3 years into pandemic
Did COVID-19 originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab?
Posted inFeature Obituary, Local & State
Arline Saturdayborn of South Portland, a teacher to the end, 81
Even in small exchanges, Saturdayborn had a capacity ‘to remind students how amazing it is that we get to be alive’ her daughter said.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end
A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: COVID emergency declarations are ending. But the health care worker crisis isn’t.
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.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Maine officials believed relief checks were tax exempt – but never asked the IRS
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.
Posted inNation & World, Schools and Education
The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school
Hundreds of thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are unaccounted for.