by Rose Lundy | April 4, 2021
Demand for food assistance this winter remained high during the COVID-19 pandemic, but organizers say federal programs prevented hunger from increasing even more. The economic fallout from the pandemic, leading to hunger, continues to disproportionately hit the most...
by Rose Lundy | January 10, 2021
More people in Maine now have been vaccinated for COVID-19 than have had the virus. About 46,600 Mainers were vaccinated as of Friday, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That represents nearly 3.5 percent of the state’s population. At...
by Rose Lundy | December 20, 2020
A COVID-19 outbreak at a Deer Isle nursing home in late November prompted nine employees — a tenth of its workers — to immediately take a leave of absence. Within two weeks 31 other employees were infected, cutting the available staff nearly in half. The remaining...
by Rose Lundy | December 20, 2020
As COVID-19 cases continue surging in Maine and the first vaccination doses offer some hope, Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke to health reporter Rose Lundy to reflect on the state’s pandemic response, and outline...
by Rose Lundy | December 20, 2020
December has been a month of hope and concern, with COVID-19 vaccines deployed for the first time to hospitals across Maine but health officials warned that the state continues to battle “a surge on top of a surge.” Hospitals this week received the first doses of the...
