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Published
July 24, 2020

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maine fall to new lows

Cumulative hospital counts for the week are at their lowest levels since the opening days of the pandemic.
Published
July 23, 2020

As national labs bog down, some Mainers face long delays for COVID-19 test results

Maine’s self-reliant testing system is insulating most patients from long turnarounds that render tests 'functionally useless.'
Published
July 17, 2020

Numbers of COVID-19 patients in Maine hospitals sink to new lows

Maine Medical Center in Portland had the fewest pandemic inpatients this week since the opening days of the pandemic.
Published
July 9, 2020

Maine’s official island registry removed for review after illegal, racist names discovered

Three Maine islands officially have a horrible racial slur in their name 43 years after the state banned it. Two incorporate a Native American slur banned for 19 years.
Published
July 2, 2020

COVID-19 hospitalizations stay low across much of Maine

MaineGeneral in Augusta had no patients all week, while Central Maine Medical Center, Maine Med and Mercy saw upticks.

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Published
July 2, 2020

With Maine tourism season here, growing number of out-of-state visitors are testing positive

Figures updated by the Maine CDC hours after the Press Herald reported that only outdated numbers were available show a near quadrupling in the pace of new cases in the last 11 days of June.
Published
June 18, 2020

Number of COVID-19 patients in Maine hospitals remains low

Maine Medical Center in Portland had fewer coronavirus patients this past week than at any time since the early days of the pandemic.
Published
June 18, 2020

Widely cited health institute keeps missing the mark on Maine death projections

The wildly different estimates by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington spotlight the potential peril of relying on one model to predict how the coronavirus will spread.
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

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.