The National Guard and federal health care workers have been deployed to help Maine’s strained hospitals.
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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Delivery of free at-home COVID-19 tests possible in Maine if federal program expands
New Hampshire delivered 800,000 tests to people’s homes in 24 hours as part of a federal pilot program that has quickly run out of funding.
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Maine COVID infections, ICU patients and school outbreaks reach new records
As bad as the pandemic is now, Maine’s top public health official warned Friday that it’s going to get worse.
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Gov. Mills activates National Guard as hospitals struggle with surge of COVID-19 patients
The Mills administration will send Guard personnel to support operations at hospitals statewide.
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COVID hospitalizations keep rising as state reports 980 new cases, 12 deaths
Tuesday’s report indicates no slowdown of the delta variant surge in Maine, which officials have warned could intensify through the holiday season.
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Maine hospitals work to expand capacity in light of COVID-19 surge
Record hospitalizations are straining resources and hospital staffs.
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Family had lost hope, but now woman battles back from COVID-19 at Maine Medical Center
Bettina Lerman, who was nearly taken off life support weeks ago, is one of a record 296 COVID-19 patients who were in Maine hospitals Monday.
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In the midst of a record-setting surge, we’re learning we have to live with COVID-19
Scientists have shifted away from talk of eliminating the virus to controlling it, but the weeks and months ahead could be rough.
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Maine seeing record surges of hospital patients in counties with low vaccination rates
Hospitals that serve Androscoggin, Franklin, Somerset and Oxford counties are seeing the biggest spikes in COVID-19 patients.
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Dental practices, EMS workers left out of Maine’s final vaccine mandate
A final version of the mandate was officially issued Wednesday, after a 90-day period for comments.