Rivers said that, despite constant messaging to the community, the average daily case rate per 100,000 population reached 78.1 in the last two weeks. He expects that number to continue to climb based on preliminary data. This is not going to end because some people have been vaccinated. It is going to take many, many months for people to get vaccinated and not everyone may get vaccinated, said Rivers. This is far from over. The worst, I think, is yet to come unfortunately. How long will we have to wear masks? Is life going to look different during each stage of the vaccination process? Kagya Amoako, Ph.D, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of New Haven, sat down with NBC Connecticut s Len Besthoff to discuss what impact the COVID-19 vaccine will have on our lives.
December 14, 2020
As University of Maine students end a semester steeped in pessimistic news coverage, it’s easy to look back at a semester of Zoom meetings and Brightspace and question whether it was all worth it. However, that sort of thinking is ultimately useless. Hindsight is 20/20. All students, faculty, and administrators can do now is figure out what they learned and how to use it going forward.
According to UMaine’s student financial aid webpage, the price of tuition for the 2020-2021 academic year is $9,240 for in-state students and $30,030 for out-of-state students. These prices represent an increase of $240 for in-state students and $720 for out-of-state students from the previous academic year. One might look at this information and think that students are overpaying for an education that has been, in more cases than ever before, strictly online, but the debate over price is irrelevant. Revenue losses associated with COVID-19 mean that tuition won’t be coming
Former Orange police head detective dies from complications of COVID-19
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ORANGE A former longtime police detective has died from complications of COVID-19, according to his obituary.
Rodger Addil, 72, of Beacon Falls, a former town resident, was a member of the Orange Police Department for nearly 30 years, starting as a supernumerary officer in 1971 and rising to the rank of head of the detective bureau.
In a post on the Police Department Facebook page in “memory of our retired lieutenant and friend,” the department said, “May he find peace and comfort in God s loving arms. We will never forget him.”
Old Lyme Lyme Academy of Fine Arts board of trustees Chairman Stephen Tagliatela, credited with helping the institution transition to an independent academy and recreate itself after its disaffiliation from the University of New Haven, has stepped down after five years, the academy announced.
The board elected Michael Duffy, an Old Lyme resident and the president of the Great Oaks Foundation, as the new chairman.
Tagliatela this month was presented with the Elisabeth Gordon Chandler medal for his service as chairman from 2015 to 2020, and Rick Lacey, an artist and instructor, has created a portrait of him, according to a news release from the Lyme Academy.
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