Most of the world has been living with the coronavirus for months, but a small group of environmental workers is only now adjusting to the pandemic.
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Posted inNation & World
Heading into holidays, U.S. COVID-19 testing strained again
More people are waiting for hours in long lines to get tested for the coronavirus, as cases surge nationwide and families hope to gather safely for the holidays
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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Unemployment claims remain high in Maine
More than 2,500 residents applied for state and federal jobless benefits in the second week of November.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
U.S. jobless claims increase to 742,000 as pandemic worsens
The economy’s modest recovery is increasingly at risk, with newly confirmed daily infections in the United States having exploded 80 percent over the past two weeks.
Posted inMaine, News
Mills imposes 9 p.m. closing time for restaurants, tasting rooms and other venues
The new restrictions were announced on a day when the Maine CDC reported 215 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death.
Posted inNation & World, News
The Latest: Mexico becomes fourth country to hit 100,000 COVID-19 deaths
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Maine, Op-Eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Wearing a mask is hard? Yeah, right
Those who don’t want to wear face coverings during the pandemic don’t know the meaning of inconvenience.
Posted inNation & World
Empty desks: Coronavirus robs U.S. classrooms of teachers
Hundreds of school employees in the U.S. have died of the coronavirus.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
‘Tired to the bone’: U.S. hospitals overwhelmed with virus cases
The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 in the U.S. has doubled in the past month and set new records every day this week.
Posted inNation & World
Coronavirus death toll surges past 250,000 in U.S.
That’s higher than the number of American military deaths in every conflict since the Korean War as well as those recorded during the U.S. Civil War.