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Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
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 ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
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.
As of Monday, August 1, households in Maine that have already ordered two test kits through Project ACT are eligible to reorder one additional free kit of five rapid tests. Order here: https://accesscovidtests.org
Yarmouth ME’s recent wastewater testing figures.
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.
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.
The latest updates from the Yarmouth Community Coronavirus Task Force.
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.
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.