Staff and students who did not register their vaccination status as of 5 p.m. Friday are being asked to undergo COVID-19 testing and quarantine when they arrive.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Maine EMS board seeks to ease vaccine mandate, fearing needed workers will ‘walk away’
Dozens spoke Monday during an online meeting of the Maine Board of Emergency Medical Services, most opposing the requirement set this month by Gov. Janet Mills.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Suicide attempts by children have spiked during the pandemic, especially among girls
And health care providers say they are seeing more children under the age of 10 thinking about or attempting suicide.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Schools and Education
Maine kindergarten vaccination rate rises
Fewer parents sought religious and philosophical exemptions last year, and a new law that takes effect this year that bans all but medical exemptions.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
A longtime nurse in Lewiston vows to quit her job rather than get the shot
Defying expert advice, Annette Roy said she won’t get vaccinated as ordered because it is too dangerous to inject “a poison into my arm.”
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Health, Maine
After brain injury, playwright Callie Kimball put down her pen to focus on healing
Kimball has a play finishing a run in Monmouth and another – likely her last – premiering at Portland Stage in September.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine, News
Abbott Laboratories disputes report that it told Maine workers to toss millions of COVID-19 tests
The company, which has plants in Westbrook and Scarborough, reportedly disposed of rapid antigen tests as cases declined and just before the delta variant created a huge new need for them.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine poised to get full FDA approval next week
President Biden has called for approval, believing it will ease doubts about the vaccine and give firmer footing for companies and schools to require inoculations.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Positive test rate for COVID-19 increases as Maine reports another 185 cases
Transmission remains high throughout much of the state and country.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine, News
Opposition to vaccine mandate heightens health care providers’ workforce concerns
Many health care employers can ill afford to lose any staff, which will happen if the workers don’t get vaccinated by Oct. 1.