The state delays its plans to vaccinate residents of assisted-living facilities after learning it won’t receive as many doses next week as it expected.
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Mercy, Mid Coast, MaineGeneral, EMMC hit new highs for COVID-19 inpatients
The burden shot upward at EMMC after a lull but flattened at Maine Med, SMHC and CMMC.
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FDA clears Moderna vaccine and nation gets second shot in its arsenal
The shots developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health are set to arrive Monday, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the fight against the coronavirus.
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Pence, leaders in Congress get COVID vaccine; Trump absent
The public displays come as top U.S. health officials try to persuade Americans who may be skeptical of the vaccinations to get them to pave the way for the end of the pandemic.
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Maine to get 40% less vaccine than expected for next week
The Maine CDC was informed by Operation Warp Speed on Thursday that it will receive 8,775 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, not the 13,650 doses the state had been expecting.
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FDA vows to move ‘rapidly’ to authorize second coronavirus vaccine
The government is preparing to ship almost 6 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, which won an advisory committee’s endorsement Thursday.
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Debunked COVID-19 myths survive online, despite facts
An overwhelming amount of false information about COVID-19 followed the coronavirus as it circled the globe over the past year.
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Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine gets public review ahead of likely approval
It’s the next-to-last step for the vaccine developed by drugmaker Moderna and the National Institutes of Health.
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Another day, another record: Maine reports 590 new cases
Nine more deaths were reported as well. New cases, as well as hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, continue to surge to unprecedented levels in Maine and across the country.
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Maine hospitals continue vaccine rollout while surge sets record
Skilled nursing homes plan to begin vaccinating residents and staff members on Monday.