Health
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PublishedMay 26, 2020
Most Medicare enrollees could get insulin for $35 a month
Older adults who pick a drug plan offering the new insulin benefit would pay a maximum of $35 a month starting next year, a savings estimated at $446 annually.
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PublishedMay 22, 2020
New cases spiking in southern Maine, raising concerns that COVID-19 is resurging
Androscoggin County's daily trend has risen nearly 15-fold in recent weeks, while Cumberland County’s has tripled.
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PublishedMay 22, 2020
Portland’s major hospitals see sharp increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations
But cases at most other hospitals across Maine remained flat over the past week.
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PublishedMay 22, 2020
Trump lashes out at scientists whose findings contradict him
Twice this week, Trump has dismissed the findings of studies and suggested – without evidence – that their authors were motivated by politics.
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PublishedMay 22, 2020
Antimalarial drug touted by Trump increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says
Past studies have found scant or no evidence that hydroxychloroquine's helps sick patients, while reports mounted of dangerous heart problems associated with its use.
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PublishedMay 22, 2020
Maine fails to deliver online inspections as restaurants reopen in pandemic
Officials planned to update the state's inspections database five years ago, but it still hasn't happened.
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PublishedMay 21, 2020
Maine CDC adds detailed pandemic data, promises more soon
Maine is the only state that's not providing daily negative test data, and alone in New England in not reporting cases by town.
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PublishedMay 19, 2020
Patients testing positive for virus after recovery aren’t infectious, South Korean study shows
Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 survivors who had tested positive for the coronavirus after their illness had apparently resolved.
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PublishedMay 18, 2020
Trump says he’s taking malaria drug to guard against coronavirus, despite safety warnings
The president spent weeks pushing the drug as a potential cure for COVID-19, against the advice of top medical professionals, who say the drug can cause significant side effects and has not been shown to combat the new coronavirus.
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PublishedMay 16, 2020
Racial disparity in Maine’s COVID-19 cases deepens
But in one of the whitest states in the country, there is also growing concern about stigmatizing immigrant and minority communities.
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