By Timothy Templet
Winter is coming, and so is a potential COVID surge. Expected to continue for years, COVID winters are making long hospital waits the new normal, with doctors and nurses scrambling to meet demand for care.
"Now more than ever, Mainers need to practice vigilance, applying the best practices that we learned from the pandemic. This means testing, testing, and more testing."
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Cianbro Corp. Chairman Peter Vigue and officials of Puritan Medical Products Co. announced that they are building a new factory to produce about 20 million more swabs and create 150 jobs.
The four honorees range from swab-maker Puritan Medical to a Danish firm that chose Portland as its U.S. headquarters. Last year was the best performance for Maine’s exports since 2011 with a total of $3.1 billion exported to 177.
I, like so many others, have found myself getting sucked into a new mystery. It's not the latest true crime podcast or bingeable TV show, but rather something affecting us personally. The question appears at least once a week on a group text chain: Do you know where we can find COVID-19 home tests in stock?