Here’s what you need to know about the current status of vaccines for children.
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UK’s new COVID travel rules called discriminatory
Travelers and authorities from India and many African countries are furious — and confused — about Britain’s new COVID-19 travel rules.
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Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations continues as Maine reports 614 new cases and 5 more deaths
The number of patients in intensive care continued to rise higher into record territory Wednesday, with the delta variant spreading in all parts of the state.
Posted inLocal & State, Uncategorized
COVID-19 exacts a painful toll in Maine, shouldered largely by state’s eldest
Mainers 60 or older account for more than 91 percent of the state’s 1,000-plus deaths.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Consumers get online tool to check nursing home vaccination rates
Medicare officials say they are encouraged that even as the delta variant has swept across the country, outbreaks in nursing homes have not raced out of control as happened last year.
Posted inHealth, Local & State
Governor acknowledges an ‘unwelcome milestone’
The state also reported a record number of patients in hospitals, including in intensive care.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
J&J: Booster dose of its COVID shot prompts strong response
The company says a second dose six months after the first raises antibody levels 12-fold.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Either we change and adapt to COVID, or we sicken and die of it
We have the ability to consciously alter the course of natural selection, but too many of us still are choosing to do what we’ve always done.
Posted inLocal & State
City Council deadlocks on indoor mask mandate in Portland
The 4-4 vote means the proposal does not pass, but it does not go away either.
Posted inNation & World
COVID-19 toll in U.S. surpasses 1918 pandemic deaths
The U.S. has reported 675,446 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University data – more than the 675,000 estimated to have died a century earlier.