All Mainers can benefit from knowing strategies to help each other in crisis and non-crisis situations. Think of it like CPR.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Closing schools should be the last option in a pandemic
Education losses might have been justified if it could be shown remote learning saved children’s lives. It can’t.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Fauci waged war on foolish refusals of facts. He’s earned America’s heartfelt thanks.
The nation’s leading infectious disease expert is retiring in December. His mistakes were small compared to his successes.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: We cannot forget about long COVID
The federal government isn’t working fast enough to find solutions to this debilitating illness.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Scientists love issuing warnings. Here’s one for them.
When it comes to both COVID and climate change, don’t condescend – suggest steps people can take that have a positive impact.
Posted inTimes Record
CDC head reflects on pandemic response at Freeport forum
Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah and global health expert Kara Palamountain discussed the current state of the pandemic and other public health topics at a Freeport talk Wednesday evening.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: I’m working in my jammies, and I’m just fine
Mounting concern for remote workers’ health and well-being rings hollow.
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick opens cooling shelter to combat heat wave
The Brunswick Parks & Recreation Department opened an air-conditioned space to the public from Thursday through Sunday as the Midcoast confronted dangerously high temperatures.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Monkeypox is not the next COVID. But it’s spreading from the same failures.
Why do we in the West pay attention only when a disease outbreak directly threatens us?
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: At last, a simple strategy for COVID booster shots
The September rollout of shots tailored to BA.4 and BA.5 could be the beginning of putting the COVID vaccine on an annual schedule.