The agency’s director hints that the state is considering scaling back case investigation and contact tracing to focus on the most vulnerable populations, as some states already have done.
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Maine schools stick to in-person instruction as coronavirus numbers rise
COVID cases are increasing in schools, but officials say they have seen little evidence of transmission in school buildings and plan to continue offering in-person learning as long as it’s safe.
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Federal and state officials don’t explain discrepancy in Maine’s first vaccine shipment
A day after Gov. Janet Mills said the state was told it would receive a third of the doses it expected, spokespeople for Sens. Collins and King wouldn’t say what Maine’s senators are doing to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine.
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Vaccines offer hope for end to pandemic, but brutal months lie ahead
By early next year, there could be more than a million doses administered every day in the U.S., but it will take time to change the trajectory of the epidemic.
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Among first acts, Biden to call for 100 days of mask-wearing
The president-elect says he will make the request of Americans on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
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State blows the whistle on basketball club’s plan to play before virus rules permit
Maine Hoops, the state’s largest organizer of club sport basketball games, plans to start games Dec. 18 – weeks before they are allowed under state guidelines.
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Vaccine rollout could ease crisis, but who gets it first?
A new analysis argues for targeting the first vaccines to the same low-income Black, Hispanic and Native American households that have disproportionately suffered from the coronavirus.
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Most of California nears stay-at-home order
As hospitalizations surge, Gov. Gavin Newsom says four of the state’s five regions will likely be under a new order within a day or two.
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Supreme Court sides with California church protesting coronavirus restrictions
It says a lower court should heed a decision by the justices last week blocking similar restrictions in New York state.