Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday announced that she will activate as many as 169 additional Maine National Guard members to help hospitals amid record-high COVID-19 hospitalizations.
I know you've read and heard this a thousand times over; a local school district is going to remote learning to amid a Covid-19 outbreak. MSAD #42 in Mars Hill announced plans for elementary school students to go remotely for the week of December 20.
When we approached Christmas 2020 a lot of parents like myself, felt like we were coming to our wits end with the back-and-forth of our kids attending school in person and then remotely. Now that we under two weeks away from Christmas 2021, we are still dealing with a complex school year.
COVID-19 cases have surged across Maine since the first of December, with a record stretch of new cases and hospitalizations reaching their highest level since the pandemic started.
Two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday, Maine is grappling with an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, fueled by the persistent delta variant.
As hospitals all over Maine are dealing with a record number of COVID-19 patients, Northern Light AR Gould Hospital in Presque Isle has converted its Day Surgery Unit to an additional inpatient unit.