Some policy experts are urging the government to close the gap by requiring nursing home staffers to get shots, a mandate the Biden administration has been reluctant to issue.
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Maine hospitals giving wage increases to address pandemic workforce shortages
MaineHealth is investing $61 million in raises for 18,000 employees, the health care network announced Wednesday. Other major health care networks have done the same.
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Climb continues as Maine reports 47 new cases of COVID-19 and 5 more deaths
Maine’s increases are lower than some parts of the country, such as Florida and Missouri, where the delta variant has taken hold.
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India’s pandemic death toll could be in the millions
Most experts believe the nation’s official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount.
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Maine delegation touts launch of logging industry relief program
A $200 million pandemic relief program is opening soon for U.S. logging and log-hauling businesses that have been seriously affected.
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COVID-19 cases rising steadily in Maine, but CDC isn’t alarmed yet
Maine reported 153 cases for the 3 days ending Monday, and the 7-day case average increased to 49, more than twice what it was just 2 weeks ago.
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Superintendent’s Notebook: Food Service team essential to learning
Our main job as a school district is to educate students, but they can’t do their best learning if they’re hungry. That’s why our Food Service team is such an integral part of our educational mission. More than half the students who attend Portland Public Schools come from food-insecure families. They depend on the thousands […]
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Biden says his ‘killing people’ remark was call for Big Tech to act
He says the point of his rhetoric was to ramp up pressure on social media giants to take action on coronavirus misinformation.
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Delta variant fears send Dow tumbling in worst one-day decline of 2021
The market jitters and growing case counts echo the earlier days of the pandemic.
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More than half of Mainers age 12-19 have had COVID-19 shots
Nationwide, only about 14% of the population that is younger than 18 has had even a first dose of coronavirus vaccine, according to data from Mayo Clinic.