The effort to “flatten the curve” is literally an attempt to reduce the spread of the pandemic so as to prevent a sudden spike in critically ill patients that overwhelms… Read more »
Article Topic: covid19
Maine and 37 other states got zero ventilators from the federal stockpile. Why?
In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald I tried to answer the question: “Why did Maine — and 37 other states — get zero ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile?” The answer… Read more »
Maine lags rest of New England in pandemic data reporting
In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, I explore why Maine lags the other five New England states in the daily reporting of all sorts of pandemic-related data, including the fact that… Read more »
The American Nations and the Geography of the Pandemic Response
Depressingly, as the global coronavirus pandemic unfolded, President Trump took measures that helped it along: denying it existed; denying it was more serious than the seasonal flu; denying it was… Read more »
In Maine, state having difficulty gathering critical pandemic data from hospitals
In the past few days I’ve written a couple of times on an unexpected problem with Maine’s pandemic response planning: more than three weeks into the crisis, the state Center… Read more »
Maine and the medical supply chain amid the pandemic
Everyone in the Portland Press Herald newsroom is on a full-court press to cover the pandemic and I’ve been following supply chain issues this week. In today’s paper I have… Read more »
Maine company taking orders for masks, Covid-19 tests, but its leader is facing criminal fraud indictments
Last week, the Boston Globe reported that a Maine company represented by former Portland legislator Diane Russell had reached out to Massachusetts officials and was supplying nearly a million urgently… Read more »
Maine island life in the time of coronavirus
At the moment the coronavirus pandemic “got real” in Maine — the announcement of the first confirmed case here — I was on Cheabeague Island with Press Herald colleague and… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.