Maine reported 525 new cases of COVID-19 and 3 additional deaths Wednesday, with another 17,000 doses of vaccine expected next week.
Kelley Bouchard
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Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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Front-line medical workers prepare for second vaccine doses
They say they experienced no trouble with the vaccines, and are asking Mainers to keep taking precautions as officials work to immunize the population.
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Maine hospitals welcome first babies of the new year
Maine Medical Center in Portland, MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta, Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor all had newborns on the first day of 2021.
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Volunteers answer staffing shortage for vaccination clinics, expose growing need
Maine hospitals have called in volunteers to help vaccinate thousands of front-line health care workers, indicating a potential shortage of trained vaccinators and others to carry out a mass inoculation.
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New COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Maine as inoculations begin at nursing homes
Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston received 60 vials of a new Moderna vaccine Monday morning, while The Cedars in Portland hosted its first vaccination clinic for residents and employees.
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Getting vaccinated is just the first step for front-line hospital staff
After caring for COVID patients for nine months, the first ICU and ER workers inoculated at Maine Med are doing fine and hoping everyone keeps wearing masks and gets vaccinated, too, as soon as possible.
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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.
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Workers on pandemic’s front line first in Maine to get vaccine
Maine Medical Center in Portland received 975 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine Tuesday and began inoculating health care workers in the intensive care, emergency and COVID units.
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Maine nursing homes say some employees and residents reluctant to get vaccinated
Without widespread inoculation against COVID-19, most nursing homes will have to remain closed to visitors for months to come.
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Difficult ethical choices await Maine’s vaccine planners: Who goes first?
Hospital and nursing home administrators will pick the first vaccine recipients.