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With relaxed COVID-19 guidelines, to mask or not to mask?

With COVID-19 recommendations relaxed, Mainers navigate the new mask etiquette in different ways. For some, it’s a matter of reading the room.

by Associated Press March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

The city’s financial district and nearby areas will be locked down from early Monday to Friday as citywide mass testing gets underway.

by Ariana Eunjung Cha The Washington Post March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

Researchers say the brain inflammation in long COVID is similar to that in cancer patients.

On Sunday, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 92 people were in hospitals statewide with coronavirus.

The state is attempting to recoup $46 million from 11,000 Mainers it says failed to retroactively prove their eligibility for a federal aid program.

by Laurie McGinley and Lena H. Sun The Washington Post March 26, 2022

The authorizations for second Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna boosters could be announced as soon as Tuesday.

A total of 93 people were hospitalized statewide with the coronavirus on Saturday, the same number as on Friday.

by MIKE STOBBE Associated Press March 25, 2022

The wide availability of vaccines and treatments puts the nation in a better place than when the pandemic began, and monitoring has come a long way.

The U.S. CDC updated its ‘community levels’ on Thursday, putting all of Maine except Hancock County at low risk for the virus.

The omicron subvariant BA.2 is becoming more prevalent in the U.S. and could lead to more cases in the coming weeks.