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Dozens of Maine schools now using COVID rapid tests for students and staff The Maine CDC has distributed more than 4,000 rapid tests to K-12 schools since early November. Share William H. Rowe School nurse Jill Webber in her office in Yarmouth on Friday. The Yarmouth schools have received 160 rapid tests. Webber said the rapid tests help the schools immensely, and wishes she had more. “The efficiency and speed at which we can do the testing is going to reduce transmission in schools and the community,” she said. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer Nearly 50 Maine schools and school districts are now using rapid-result coronavirus tests on symptomatic students and staff to quickly identify positive cases and to improve the contact tracing and quarantine process. ....
Morrison Center It s so incredibly comforting for the staff at the school, Jill Webber, a nurse at the William H. Rowe School in Yarmouth told NEWSCENTER Maine. Rowe and other nurses across the Yarmouth School Dept. have already tested students and staff showing symptoms of the virus over the last couple of weeks. Compared to the traditional PCR test that often takes days to get results back, the Abbott kit uses a swab, card, and reagent to produce results in minutes. We have a kid come down that has symptoms that are consistent with COVID to be able to quickly do a test and know if that kid s positive or not, Webber said. ....
Number of rural students planning on going to college plummets Trend threatens rural economies, widens their drift from cities and suburbs Share this: A school bus drives along Main Street in Bucksport, Maine. In the background is the lone remaining smokestack of the local paper mill, which employed more than 500 people but closed abruptly just before Christmas in 2014. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox ....