Events in two central Maine districts show that schools can’t stay open without effective COVID precautions in place.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Coronavirus pandemic edges toward grim milestone
For more than a century, the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the deadliest in our history, a record that will soon be broken by COVID.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine CDC should speed up processing of COVID tests
Along with the nationwide shortage of tests, the backlog of positive results is making it harder to fight the virus.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: In response to delta variant, FDA must fast-track COVID vaccine for kids under 12
Faster authorization will save tens of thousands of child hospitalizations, hundreds of child deaths and, through reduced spread, thousands of adult lives.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Losing patience with Maine’s COVID surge
Even the usually reassuring Dr. Nirav Shah is telling us that things are bad and are going to get worse.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine years in the making
Fully approved Monday, the shot was created and received emergency approval in record time, but it is the result of a long commitment to science.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Anti-mask parents are teaching the wrong lessons
If we don’t want our kids to act out, be selfish or refuse to listen to instructions, then we shouldn’t behave that way, either.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: We’re not guessing about safety, effectiveness of COVID vaccines
They’ve been put to the test by duly skeptical scientists, and the findings are unmistakable: They save lives.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Naloxone shortage another sign of failure to meet challenge of addiction
One company’s manufacturing issue should not put such a strain on the supply of a life-saving medication.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Not all unvaccinated Americans are ‘anti-vaxxers’
Efforts should focus on overcoming barriers for the tens of millions of people who haven’t gotten the shot yet but are open to it.