PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Maine s backlog of 46,000 positive COVID-19 tests artificially lowered its numbers of confirmed cases, coinciding with a reduction in the amount of lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to block a vaccine requirement imposed on Maine health care workers, the latest defeat for opponents of vaccine mandates.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is loosening the state s mask-wearing requirements in the wake of new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) â Maine s two U.S. senators said the coronavirus pandemic has provided evidence that the state s unemployment system needs to be modernized.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King said Wednesday the federal government is giving the Maine Department of Labor more than $380,000 toward that effort. They said the money will promote and improve the labor department s short time compensation program, which is designed to allow workers to receive partial unemployment benefits if their employer reduces their hours to avoid layoffs.
The labor department is expected to use the money to raise awareness of the program and increase participation in it, the senators said. They said the money will also help streamline reporting by employers and workers to the Maine Bureau of Unemployment Compensation.
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Quynh Tran, a clinical pharmacist from The Public Health Commission Corps, prepares a vial of Moderna vaccine on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at a mobile vaccination unit currently stationed at the Oxford Casino, in Oxford, Maine. The clinic pivoted to administering the Moderna vaccine after the Johnson & Johnson vaccines were paused with guidance from the Center for Disease Control. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal via AP)
Half of Maine’s population of age 16 and up has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Janet Mills said Sunday.
That amount includes 38% of eligible residents who received their final dose, Mills said in a news release.