With new variants spreading even as vaccination rates are rising, keep wearing masks, socially distancing and limiting non-essential travel.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Why we are more cautious when there’s light at the end of the tunnel
Recent compliance with COVID guidelines shows that the closer people feel to the end of a crisis, the more likely they are to change their behavior to make it come true.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Focus on vaccinations, not passports
The best way to open up safely is to maximize the number of people who can’t catch or spread COVID-19.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Maine employers navigate complexities of office reopening
Companies would like to start bringing more workers back to the office, but the process is fraught with legal, ethical and health concerns.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Vaccine passports don’t have to work to be effective
The United States should develop a system to verify inoculations but not necessarily use it.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: It’s time for Maine children to go back to school
Onerous state requirements are making full-time public K-12 education impossible and placing a heavy burden on our kids.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: When facts cease to matter, consequences do, too
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh light on what it really means to live in an anti-reality society.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: ‘Long-haulers’ a distressing sign of COVID’s future
COVID-19 is causing scary long-term symptoms, even in people with initially mild cases.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Essential workers have earned the hazard pay Portland voters approved
We are proud to be keeping local people fed and healthy, but we shouldn’t have to bear the burden of the pandemic.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: U.S. vaccine hoarding is alienating the world
The world had hoped ‘America First’ would end when Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump as president. It hasn’t.