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Public health

Published
March 29, 2020

Insight: Access to outdoors key to COVID-19 response

The health benefits of fresh air and exercise should be part of the public health coronavirus calculus.
Published
March 29, 2020

Our View: Broadband is a lifesaver in COVID crisis

Maine's spotty internet service eliminates safe education options and puts public health at risk.
Published
March 28, 2020

Maine Voices: On the front lines of COVID-19 fight, nurses and doctors are unprotected

Because health care corporations didn't prepare, a nurse and her colleagues wonder every day whether they'll bring home the deadly virus.
Published
March 27, 2020

Our View: Lack of protective, medical supplies continues to put Americans in danger

With each day that the federal government does not adequately respond to COVID-19, the future cost grows greater.
Published
March 27, 2020

Maine Voices: Paging Dr. Koop – we need his science-based advocacy during today’s crisis

The U.S. must hear from a health care expert who commands the nation's respect, as the surgeon general did in the AIDS epidemic.

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Published
March 26, 2020

Commentary: I’m an ER doctor ready to save your life. Keep me safe – stay home

If more health care providers get sick, we may come to a point where we simply do not have enough staff to care for patients.
Published
March 25, 2020

Our View: The coronavirus is giving us a choice

We can have a shorter disruption now, or a much worse one later.
Published
March 25, 2020

Maine Voices: To change our state’s forecast for COVID-19, we cannot afford half measures

Maine now has over 100 cases. Global data show that the time between 100 cases and 100 deaths averages 13 days.
Published
March 21, 2020

Commentary: ‘Our health care system is about to become completely overwhelmed’

An emergency physician with roots in Maine describes 'a turning point' on the COVID-19 unit of the out-of-state ER where she works.
Published
March 20, 2020

Maine Voices: Republican Party has paved the way for U.S. to be overtaken by COVID-19

The crisis is the result of the demonization of government, the diminishment of the role of science and support for a president who's not fit to lead.