Outbreaks at a meat plant, a rehab facility and a homeless shelter may account for the increases, as it’s too early to see any effects of loosened restrictions.
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Pandemic hospitalizations in Maine continue to flatten and decline
Closing down activity in the state has flattened the COVID-19 curve and taken the pressure off hospitals, a Press Herald analysis finds, but dangers remain.
Maine medical specialist says warmer weather doesn’t mean virus will be killed
In a Wednesday afternoon briefing, Northern Light Health announced that its own laboratories had processed more than 3,700 tests for coronavirus.
Northern Light Health offers voluntary furloughs, but will not lay off workers
Many employees have been reassigned to other jobs within the health care system as elective procedures and appointments have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As health care shifts, so do health care employees
Primary care doctors are leaving their offices to work in hospitals and nurses are staffing screening tents as the entire industry adapts to the coronavirus.