The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Maine Department of Education (DOE) will drop its statewide recommendation…
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During her annual State of the State address, Gov. Janet Mills announced her intention to return $411 million of the…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Health and Human Services (HHS) convened on February 9 to hold public hearings on two…
The dominoes are falling. In just the last month, public leaders of numerous (though not all) European countries, the nation of Israel,…
In late January, Gov. Janet Mills announced her administration has partnered with The Rockefeller Foundation to launch a pilot program…
On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided new research showing that, during the recent Delta…
On January 12, while driving, I listened to the Maine CDC’s weekly COVID-19 briefing conducted by Maine DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and…
On January 12, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced…
St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston has implemented a policy allowing employees who test positive for COVID-19 to come to work…
On December 30, the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Maine Department of Education (DOE) announced…
Gov. Janet Mills appeared at a December 8 press conference held by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
On December 1, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in partnership with the Maine Department of Education,…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) on November 10 released its final rule updating the immunization requirements…
A recent analysis of the data in Maine CDC’s Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard revealed that, while rates of…
Maine’s requirement that healthcare workers at designated healthcare facilities be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 went into enforcement on October 29.…
Reports across Maine over the last month have detailed the several healthcare facilities forced to curtail services because of staffing shortages.…
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal for injunctive relief on October 29 in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s…
As of October 7, there have been just under 3,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in Maine schools within the last…
That darn First Amendment. This week, The Maine Wire learned that the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
On September 9th, President Joe Biden ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency tasked with regulating workplace safety,…
There are a growing number of legal challenges to Gov. Janet Mills’ requirement that healthcare workers receive the COVID-19 vaccine.…
At the end of July, Governor Mills and the Maine CDC issued a recommendation that all K-12 students wear face…
On August 12, Gov. Janet Mills announced that all Maine healthcare workers will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19…
As the data stand right now, deaths are not on pace with new infections across the country, and we are still in a much better position in the pandemic than just a few months ago, so let’s act like it.
On July 28, Gov. Janet Mills announced updates to Maine’s recommendations for wearing face coverings in indoor settings. The state…
On June 9, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) updated its PreK-12 and Adult Education Public Guidance. Though Gov. Janet…
Seven Maine lawmakers were stripped of their committee assignments on Monday by House Speaker Ryan Fecteau following a spat at…
Over the last few weeks, a central pillar of pandemic-era decision making crumbled. The arbitrary measuring stick for defining whether…
Since the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and distributed to states, people have…
Maine Policy Institute has previously noted the potential pitfalls of relying on a single health authority, especially one subject to political consequences,…
When we hear about the challenge of testing for the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), we often hear that tests may take a…
Dominic Petrillo, owner of Petrillo’s restaurant in Freeport, got his license temporarily suspended on Monday for serving customers indoors despite…
Maine Governor Janet Mills signed an executive order Thursday that effectively prevents the immediate eviction of tenants for the duration…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting Wednesday an additional 4 deaths in Maine due to the…
Governor Janet Mills announced Tuesday she signed a proclamation extending until May 15 her previous state of civil emergency order…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 698 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Maine, according to Dr.…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 586 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Maine and one additional…
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reached 560 and two more Mainers passed away as a result of the…
Two more Mainers passed away overnight as a result of COVID-19 according to Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine…
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Maine grew by 20 overnight to 519 total infections, according to Dr. Nirav…
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Maine jumped by 41 overnight to 344 total cases and two more Mainers…
Governor Janet Mills issued a stay at home order for the State of Maine during a press conference Tuesday evening…
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Maine has jumped to 303 according to Dr. Nirav Shah, director of…
Maine recorded its second and third deaths caused by the coronavirus over the weekend, according to Maine Center for Disease…
Maine Governor Janet Mills and Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, held a…
