Posted on 05/17/2020 11:52:58 AM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Janet Mills has continued to lift lockdown measures that have slowed the pandemic in Maine even though the state has failed to meet key reopening prerequisites and other essential benchmarks and guidelines established by public health experts.
The missed targets include downward trends in new cases, minimum levels of daily tests performed, and the establishment of a regime to routinely test asymptomatic individuals in exposed roles such as health care providers, supermarket clerks, ambulance crews and factory employees.
“If we are really going to bring our society back to normal and have a major reopening, we need to be having much broader testing for all people in public-facing roles so you can detect the asymptomatic folk,” said Sen. Geoff Gratwick, D-Bangor, a retired physician who co-chairs the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee. “If you can’t test a second-grader in their class, a grocery clerk and a fireman, I think we’re running a danger.”
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, agreed. “If the criteria you use to decide whether it’s time to open up are case counts and ICU occupancy and deaths, those are fairly late indicators, and if you wait to see changes in those numbers, it could be too late to take action,” she said. “You want to spot the problem as early as possible so you can implement changes in the community so you don’t have to revert to closing things down again.”
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Let me guess. Gratwick and Nuzzo have both continued to collect paychecks during the lockdown.
Not to defend a democrat, but here in Maine, legislators make about $12,000 per 6 month session. They have day jobs that bring in their real income. As for Ms Nuzzo, she must live somewhere near Baltimore as she works for Johns Hopkins.
There’s been about 0 deaths since the 3 on Thursday.
Actually one reported on Saturday. Total 70. Please get your facts correct.
Oh, go screw. I said 'about' for a reason. I didn't say 'there have been 0', 'I said there have been about 0'. That means 'approximately', and I was responding to a note that only pointed out the 3 last Thursday without giving the context that there have been very few deaths in Maine in total in general and especially recently. The point is, Maine is doing fine. We're a very elderly state and given that, there are relatively few deaths.
"Please get your facts correct."
'About 0' is correct. Please go unwind your panties and stop being such a ninny or if you must be a ninny go bug someone else.
Wells Beach
Sounds nice, I know I’ve driven that way but it’s been a long time.
Our trip starts in Portland and heads north.
I lived in Portland in 85-87. Then in Gorham for a little while. Beautiful area but so riddled with homeless libs now it’s not as nice
Sad to hear.
Same story everywhere.
They've made sure to reach every corner of the country.
Not a single state had met the Administration guidelines for opening when they opened, and it hasn't been the disaster people have predicted.
The country wasn't recognizable. In so many different ways.
Open Maine, Remember the Maine Governor come her next election.
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