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PublishedJune 28, 2023
Puritan Medical Products announces layoffs affecting more than 200 in Pittsfield
Based in Guilford, Puritan had become one of the top two swab manufacturers in the world, but orders have decreased dramatically as the COVID-19 pandemic has receded, forcing the company to downsize.
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PublishedJune 21, 2023
Court ‘blitz’ underway in effort to tackle backlog of criminal cases in Kennebec County
The caseload in Kennebec County courts is 67% higher than it was pre-pandemic, with 2,343 cases pending.
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PublishedMay 25, 2023
Court grants new life to lawsuit challenging Maine’s vaccine mandate for health care workers
Three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court's decision to throw out a legal challenge to the state's COVID-19 mandate for health care workers.
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PublishedMay 23, 2023
Abbott Labs lays off another 199 workers at Westbrook COVID-test plant
The company, one of the largest makers of screening tests for the disease, has been scaling back as demand for the products has dwindled, laying off more than 800 people over the last 2 years.
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PublishedMay 10, 2023
End of COVID emergency highlights U.S. weakness in tracking outbreaks
The winding down of the Biden administration’s coronavirus response highlights long-standing vulnerabilities of system that fails to provide reliable information in disease outbreaks, experts warn.
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PublishedMay 5, 2023
With COVID-19 public health emergency ending, Maine CDC website to stop updating vaccination numbers
The state will still update COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations and deaths.
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PublishedMay 5, 2023
WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it’s no longer global emergency
The pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year, and most countries have returned to life before COVID-19.
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PublishedApril 26, 2023
MaineHealth drops COVID-19 masking requirement
Masks are no longer required at MaineHealth or Northern Light Health medical facilities statewide, effectively putting an end to the emergency measure in most situations 3 years after the pandemic began.
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PublishedApril 20, 2023
Northern Light Health drops universal masking policy in medical facilities
The move by Maine's second largest health care network comes as the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 has dropped to the lowest level since August 2021.
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PublishedApril 10, 2023
Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.
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