This year’s back-to-school supply list has an important line item: face masks. Here’s how to choose the best mask for your child, when to wash it and how to get them to wear it all day.
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Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Agencies that care for vulnerable and older Mainers seek delay in vaccination mandate
Representatives from groups providing home health and other services sent a letter Thursday to Gov. Mills asking for a 45-day extension of the Oct. 1 deadline.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
CVS limits purchases of rapid COVID-19 tests, citing demand
The renewed demand for testing has arisen just as the delta variant threatens many people’s plans to return to work and school this fall.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Number of ICU patients in Maine hospitals jumps, tying pandemic’s all-time high
This latest surge, driven largely by unvaccinated Mainers infected with the delta variant, is straining the state’s hospital system.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine education chief: Let’s work together so our kids can learn in person, full time
We have the power to limit COVID’s impact on Maine students through vaccination, indoor masks at school and engagement in testing programs, Commissioner Pender Makin says.
Posted inNation & World, News
Virus surge breaking hospital records, afflicting more children
Intensive care units around the nation are packed with patients extremely ill with the coronavirus.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools and Education
Lewiston school board approves mandatory masking
The committee also voted unanimously to adopt pooled testing of students and teachers.
Posted inNation & World
Half of U.S. workers favor employee shot mandate, poll finds
About one-quarter of workers – in person and remote – are opposed.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Music industry weighs vaccine mandates, but politics collide
In Florida and Texas, for instance, governors issue bans on vaccine passports.
Posted inNation & World, News
Without masking, 100,000 more COVID deaths forecast by December in U.S.
Health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces.