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Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - July 1, 2024
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Feb 01, 2024
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Dec 22, 2023
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Dec 15, 2023
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Sep 1, 2023
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Aug 1, 2023
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Mar 9, 2023
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Jan 18, 2023
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Dec 8, 2022
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Thinking through the holidays this year by Your Local Epidemiologist
With the season for family get-togethers coming up, here are some ways to help avoid infecting those who are more vulnerable with Covid and other viruses. Also some general thoughts and advice on how to avoid Covid-related disruption in your lives. Katelyn always writes very thoughtfully and as realistically as possible.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Nov 1, 2022
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Oct 6, 2022
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - Aug 30, 2022
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Aug 2022 National and statewide Covid trends
For the Aug 11th YCCTF meeting, Sharon MacDonnell and Gib Parrish pulled together data on both national and statewide Covid trends to compare how the US and Maine are doing this summer. They also projected what they expect to happen in the next few months.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - July 28, 2022
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - June 1, 2022
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures and background on the wastewater testing program and how it has changed since transitioning to the CDC funded program and a new laboratory.
Yarmouth’s COVID-19 task force wins state award (Press Herald)
The Yarmouth Community Coronavirus Task Force is the winner of this year’s Public Health Program of Excellence Award from the Maine Public Health Association. “It’s a great honor and a real tribute to the many people in Yarmouth who volunteered to make all the activities that we’ve been involved in possible,” said Margaret Downing, one of four founding members of the 100-member task force.
The task force was honored for its “leadership, collaboration, and volunteer efforts to serve the needs of the Yarmouth community during the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to Rebecca Boulos, executive director of the MPHA.
Covid Task Force update, May 6th 2022
The latest updates from the Yarmouth Community Coronavirus Task Force.
Yarmouth Covid Wastewater Testing Results - April 13, 2022
Yarmouth, ME began a new wastewater testing program with the U.S. CDC on February 10, 2022. Data from that new program continues to show a lower—but persistent—level of the COVID-19 virus in the community. We continue to urge caution particularly in large group settings.
Following Yarmouth's Lead, State Looks To Wastewater For Covid Clues
Staff writer Joe Lawler recently wrote an in-depth article for the Portland Press Herald about the wastewater testing program, and how it has enabled the town to tracked the omicron wave rise and fall in real time.