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PublishedJanuary 12, 2022
Front-line health care workers more strained than ever during omicron surge
Nearly two years after COVID-19 first hit Maine, the pandemic is putting an enormous burden on the state's health care workers and system.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in U.S. and Britain
The variantĀ has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected inĀ South Africa.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
Hundreds press Maine lawmakers to ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates
Legislators hear from fearful residents who want to block mandates on COVID-19 vaccines, which have been proven to be safe and to prevent more serious illness.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
Fauci, Walensky testify while omicron prompts many possible changes
Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
Gov. Mills to send 169 more National Guard members to help Maine’s hospitals
It is the second time in a month that Mills has announced the deployment of Guard members to assist hospitals.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2022
Franklin Memorial Hospital to reduce services temporarily due to spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations
Officials say services at Farmington hospital to be reduced to emergency and acutely ill patients.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2022
Drugs to treat high-risk patients in critically short supply as omicron surge hits Maine
A national shortage leaves Maineās doctors with a tiny fraction of the monoclonal antibody treatments their patients could use.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2022
U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient, a medical 1st
The patient knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but he was dying, ineligible for a human heart transplant and had no other option, his son said.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2022
Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday
Private health insurers will be required to cover as many as eight home COVID-19 tests per month for those on their plans.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2022
COVID-19 hospitalizations exceed 400 for the first time in Maine
There were 403 patients hospitalized with the disease Monday, but the number of ICU patients has remained steady.
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