Health
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PublishedMay 6, 2020
Children fall ill with mysterious inflammatory syndrome thought to be linked to COVID-19
The number of affected children is very small and doctors emphasized that parents should not panic.
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PublishedMay 5, 2020
Shortage of swabs hampers COVID-19 testing in Maine nursing homes
Most of the facilities that responded to a survey said they lacked the basic tool to detect the disease.
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PublishedMay 5, 2020
Coronavirus can cause damaging, even fatal blood clots from brain to toes
Doctors are noting a raft of clotting-related disorders, from benign skin lesions on the feet to life-threatening strokes and blood-vessel blockages.
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PublishedMay 4, 2020
Pence acknowledges he should have worn a mask during Mayo Clinic visit
It is a rare admission of a mistake by a senior Trump administration official.
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PublishedMay 1, 2020
Maine’s rural hospitals, clinics to receive $131 million in federal aid
The funding is part of the CARES Act passed in late March to deal with economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
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PublishedMay 1, 2020
FDA allows emergency use of drug to fight COVID-19
The agency acts after preliminary results from a government-sponsored study showed that remdesivir shortened the time to recover by about 4 days on average.
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PublishedMay 1, 2020
Hospitalizations of Maine COVID-19 patients flatten or decline for 3rd week
Despite outbreaks in a Portland poultry processing plant and a Bangor homeless shelter, hospitalizations are down in those cities from a week ago.
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PublishedApril 30, 2020
Drug maker to produce Oxford’s experimental vaccine as worldwide race heats up
The Trump administration is pushing to make shots available for Americans by year's end, as one possible coronavirus vaccine developed at Oxford University entered human testing last week.
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PublishedApril 30, 2020
A coronavirus drug seems to work. What’s next?
No drug currently is approved for treating the virus, but the nation's top infectious disease expert says he expects remdesivir to receive emergency approval from the FDA.
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PublishedApril 29, 2020
Sewage may tell us when the coronavirus lockdown will end
Americans might find the idea gross, but wastewater early-warning systems have helped catch norovirus, Hepatitis A and other diseases around the world for decades.
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