In this week of civil rights protests, police violence, and militarized deployments in major cities it’s been hard to remember there’s a deadly, once-in-a-century pandemic going on, but amazingly there… Read more »
Article Topic: Health
Covid hospitalizations return to peak levels in Southern Maine
The number of Covid-19 inpatients at Portland’s major hospitals returned to the peak levels of early April last week, data collected directly from Maine’s hospitals show. York County’s largest hospital… Read more »
Exclusive: pandemic appears resurgent in southern Maine
To kick off your Memorial Day weekend unpleasantly, I have this story in today’s Portland Press Herald showing that Covid-19 has been having a clear resurgence in two of Maine’s… Read more »
Maine CDC to improve its pandemic data reporting
Over the past couple of months, I’ve reported on a variety of shortcomings in the way the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention collects and/or shares data on the… Read more »
Maine reopening despite missing benchmarks, lacking adequate testing regime
In today’s Maine Sunday Telegram I wrote about how Maine has been reopening even as it has missed the prerequisites set by the White House, the testing thresholds advised by… Read more »
Maine Covid-19 hospitalizations contine to fall for third week
In the absence of widespread testing, its difficult to know if trends in new pandemic cases are an indication of the actual spread of the disease, or if the ups… Read more »
Maine alone in New England in not reporting pandemic cases by town
Maine is now the only state in New England that won’t release the number of Covid-19 cases by town, rather than by county. Vermont on Monday introduced the higher-resolution reporting…. Read more »
Allocations of N95 masks from federal stockpile weren’t distributed to states on per capita basis
As states have scrounged for supplies of N95 masks and other critical personal protective equipment, federal authorities have repeatedly said the state-by-state allocations from the Strategic National Stockpile were made… Read more »
Covid-19 hospitalizations in much of Maine have flattened
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 »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six 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 the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.