Dr. Nirav Shah says state epidemiologists have traced some infections in Maine and other states to a ‘super spreader,’ a traveling salesperson who may have infected people while visiting an establishment in Maine.

The director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the agency has not been able to get the rapid-response testing kits it expected from a Scarborough manufacturer and is going ‘back to the drawing board.’

Requests for food stamps and other public assistance programs have nearly doubled since the middle of March.

As the outbreak approached, administrators and medical personnel moved to the front lines in a battle that would alter society.

The hospitals are canceling all non-critical procedures and banking on social distancing to reduce demand for their limited number of beds.