Health care

Published
June 14, 2020

Health experts say contact tracing is best tool until a vaccine, but most states aren’t doing enough

Health departments in many of the worst-affected communities are way behind in hiring and training those people.
Published
June 14, 2020

Pandemic takes staggering financial toll on Maine hospitals

They have lost $250 million a month since the pandemic hit the state. The federal bailout has covered about a month's losses.
Published
June 12, 2020

Depression, anxiety spiked among black Americans after George Floyd’s death
Published
June 12, 2020

Additional 54 coronavirus cases reported in Maine, as more businesses reopen

Gov. Janet Mills said she was accelerating the date for lodging places to start serving out-of-state visitors, and on Friday fitness centers as well as bars and brewery tasting rooms with outdoor seating opened in 13 counties.
Published
June 12, 2020

COVID-19 hospitalizations fall across the state, even in southern Maine

More younger, healthier people are being tested now, and fewer of them have to be hospitalized when they get the disease.