In August 2021 Science Magazine, a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, highlighted groundbreaking…
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Throughout the pandemic, few things incited more discord than the mandated use of facemasks as a preventative measure to reduce…
On May 14, 18-year-old Payton Gendron traveled more than 200 miles from his hometown to a predominantly Black neighborhood of…
On April 18, Florida federal Judge Kathryn Mizelle invalidated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) order requiring that passengers wear masks on…
Bureaucrats cling to power. It’s their institutional predisposition. So it was no surprise on Wednesday when the Department of Justice…
One day I’m reading an internal memo commissioned by the Democratic Party to provide advice to dealing with Covid policy.…
A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supposedly shows that wearing a face mask in public…
On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided new research showing that, during the recent Delta…
On January 12, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced…
Maine’s rate of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes is currently the highest in the nation according to data provided by…
Reports across Maine over the last month have detailed the several healthcare facilities forced to curtail services because of staffing shortages.…
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal for injunctive relief on October 29 in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s…
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic will go down in American history as one of loss, economic suffering, and…
On Monday, US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona touted new academic research to show that masks have been effective at reducing…
The pandemic was a test of America’s public health bureaucracy. It failed.
On September 9th, President Joe Biden ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency tasked with regulating workplace safety,…
The ACLU on Tuesday announced it is bringing a lawsuit against South Carolina over its mask policy. The Palmetto State…
At the end of July, Governor Mills and the Maine CDC issued a recommendation that all K-12 students wear face…
A viral Instagram post claimed that COVID-19 is 99 percent survivable for most age groups—the elderly being an important exception. The post…
On August 12, Gov. Janet Mills announced that all Maine healthcare workers will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19…
Over a recent 12-day period the Milwaukee Brewers had nine players test positive for COVID-19. While we don’t know the…
On August 4, just days after allowing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium to expire…
As the data stand right now, deaths are not on pace with new infections across the country, and we are still in a much better position in the pandemic than just a few months ago, so let’s act like it.
Nobel-Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” If only he’d known…
On July 28, Gov. Janet Mills announced updates to Maine’s recommendations for wearing face coverings in indoor settings. The state…
In another attempt to “follow the science,” a pediatrics group has issued guidance that does the exact opposite. The American…
Between 2019 and 2020, drug deaths in Maine rose by 33% according to a report funded by the Maine Office…
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Sunday to advance a supplemental budget, and lawmakers in the House and Senate approved…
The primary finding of the study was that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality actually increased, not decreased.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins grilled US CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday during a Senate Health Committee hearing where…
Since last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have used an obscure federal regulation to impose a nationwide moratorium on…
Over the last few weeks, a central pillar of pandemic-era decision making crumbled. The arbitrary measuring stick for defining whether…
As COVID-19 case counts rise across the United States and Europe, it is important to understand how we identify active…
Recently, some on social media have shared a misrepresentation of an August 26 update to the US Centers for Disease…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday released a report on the state of mental health among…
Maine recorded its second and third deaths caused by the coronavirus over the weekend, according to Maine Center for Disease…
The Maine Legislature will prematurely adjourn Tuesday in response to the coronavirus, Maine’s legislative leaders announced late last week. Lawmakers…
Last month, Maine’s Legislative Council allowed LR 2765, “An Act To Enact Restrictions on Electronic Smoking Devices,” to proceed to…