coronavirus

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August 16, 2021

Biden administration to announce most Americans will need booster shots

Health and science experts are coming to believe that people will need the boosters eight months after they are fully vaccinated.
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August 16, 2021

COVID mask disputes make for rocky start of school year

Nowhere did Monday's battles play out greater than in Texas, where some counties and school districts kept in place mask mandates and others rescinded them.
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August 16, 2021

Health care workers protest vaccine mandate in Augusta

Nearly 400 people, many in scrubs, lined both sides of State Street in front of the Maine State House to protest the requirement to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1 or have a medical exemption.
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August 16, 2021

Letter: It’s ‘un-American’ to discriminate against those who choose not to vaccinate
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August 16, 2021

Letter: ‘Abundance of caution’ has served Maine well

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August 16, 2021

Letter: ‘Vital service’ not based in fact is not useful
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August 16, 2021

Booster shots available for Mainers with compromised immune systems

Those who qualify include people who are having cancer treatments or who have immunodeficiency disease or other specified conditions affecting their immune systems.
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August 16, 2021

Portland vaccine policy applies to more than 1,000 city employees

The city is negotiating the implementation of the new vaccine mandate with various unions that represent municipal employees.
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August 16, 2021

Bates College tells students, faculty and staff they must wear masks

Reversing fall plans, the Lewiston college tells its mostly-vaccinated community that high COVID-19 rates in Lewiston require a return to a mask mandate on campus.
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August 16, 2021

Vaccine-skeptical cardinal placed on ventilator after contracting COVID

Cardinal Raymond Burke is one of Pope Francis' fiercest critics and an outspoken Church conservative.