The Trump administration is pushing to make shots available for Americans by year’s end, as one possible coronavirus vaccine developed at Oxford University entered human testing last week.
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Maine Acts of Kindness: Face masks, from China with love
YuJi Smith, 12, of Edgecomb donated 200 surgical face masks to the Maine Veterans’ Home in Augusta, courtesy of a relative in China and in honor of a World War II vet.
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Posted inBusiness, Health, Nation & World
A coronavirus drug seems to work. What’s next?
No drug currently is approved for treating the virus, but the nation’s top infectious disease expert says he expects remdesivir to receive emergency approval from the FDA.
Posted inAsk ME, Local & State, Uncategorized
When can I go to a library again? Who has to quarantine for 14 days and what does that mean?
Part of an occasional series answering readers’ questions about Maine. Q: I haven’t found where libraries fall into the state’s reopening plan. When can they reopen? A: Libraries are one of the many business and service sectors not listed anywhere in the reopening plan, so you are not the only one who is perplexed. Generally, […]
Posted inSports
Maine tells out-of-state golfers: Stay away as courses reopen
Even for Maine residents, golfers must play at courses in their own county, except for clubs where they are a member.
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Southern Maine Weeklies
OOB to temporarily institute ‘walking beach’ May 11
The town renews its civil order, allowing food to be served from take-out windows, more.
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick rolls back some restrictions to comply with governor’s reopening plan
Some of the town’s stricter limitations, like requiring restaurants not allow customers to enter the business, only allowing child care centers to have 12 children per group and mandating face coverings for all employees of indoor public-serving businesses, still stand.
Posted inTimes Record
BIW calls employees back to work as state begins to reopen
Many Bath Iron Works employees took extended unpaid leave after the coronavirus outbreak started, but now the shipyard says its time to return.
Posted inLocal & State
Newly released data suggest ‘alarming’ racial disparity among Maine’s COVID-19 cases
African Americans account for 1.7% of the state’s population but 3.7% of the state’s infections. The state CDC director says, ‘These disparities are concerning.’
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Antibody testing for coronavirus offered in Maine – with cautions
Several medical practices are offering the tests as a way to determine whether a patient has been exposed to the virus, but the tests lack FDA approval, and doctors note that immunity after infection has not been proven.
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