Health
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2021
Mainers younger than 20 now account for nearly half of state’s new COVID cases
The state reported 319 cases among people under 20 years old, a 3-day total that is the highest for that group in any report during the pandemic.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2021
Lyseth Elementary in Portland will reopen Tuesday following COVID outbreak
Most students will be allowed to return to in-person learning after the school was closed Monday, but some classrooms will remain closed while school officials await further test results.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2021
School vaccine campaigns targeting students face blowback
Across the U.S., family politics and pressure from Republicans come into play as vaccine-hesitant parents are struggling with vaccine-seeking teenagers set on getting their shots.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2021
Vaccines cut risk of ‘long COVID’ in half, major study finds
Published in the Lancet, the study included nearly 1 million fully vaccinated British adults.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2021
Massive randomized study is proof that surgical masks limit coronavirus spread, authors say
The paper, which is under peer review with the journal Science, tracked more than 340,000 adults across 600 villages in rural Bangladesh.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Oxygen supplies grow precarious amid COVID surge
There is some good news, however: The nation's daily caseload has slowed dramatically from early August and vaccination rates are up.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
FDA facing demands to snuff out Juul’s e-cigarettes
The agency is supposed to decide by Sept. 9 whether the company - and many other e-cigarette manufacturers - will be allowed to keep selling their products.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2021
U.S. outbreaks force early reversals of in-person learning
As infections mount, more than 80 school districts or charter networks have closed or delayed in-person classes for at least 1 entire school in more than a dozen states.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2021
Suicide attempts by children have spiked during the pandemic, especially among girls
And health care providers say they are seeing more children under the age of 10 thinking about or attempting suicide.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2021
Maine kindergarten vaccination rate rises
Fewer parents sought religious and philosophical exemptions last year, and a new law that takes effect this year that bans all but medical exemptions.
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