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NORWAY It should come as a surprise to exactly no one that Oxford Hills is being rocked by the coronavirus.
Last Friday state officials changed from the green designation Oxford County has maintained for most of the fall back down to yellow, meaning the Maine Department of Education recommends that schools revert to hybrid learning. One can make many assumptions about the trends and consequences.
According to Maine Center for Disease Control spokesman Robert Long, the sharp rise in the county can in part be explained by an out break at Pinnacle Health in Canton, a skilled nursing facility where an outbreak has resulted a total of 56 cases of the virus as of last Sunday; 42 residents and 14 staff. According to its website, the facility has 47 beds. An ambulance was in the parking lot late Sunday afternoon, its red lights flashing.