Hospital and nursing home administrators will pick the first vaccine recipients.
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Insight: Nothing will be easy about COVID vaccine
Buying doses for everyone on Earth, storing the vaccine, shipping it and administering it will be difficult and expensive.
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Commentary: Vaccine politics will soon replace election politics
The coming fights over cost and access to COVID treatments are guaranteed to displease most Americans.
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Sanford superintendent blames problems with permission slips for flu shots without consent
A school district investigation shows 3 students got vaccinations after submitting permission slips that weren’t signed or indicated the parent didn’t want their child vaccinated.
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Three Sanford students given flu shots without parents’ approval
During a flu shot clinic put on by Northern Light Health Care, 3 students in the school district were administered a flu vaccine without proper consent.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: COVID-19 not the only infectious disease
Mainers will have to pick up the pace if we are going to meet the deadlines in the new vaccine law that was upheld by voters in March.
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Maine faces numerous hurdles in coming race to vaccinate for COVID-19
Success in a mass-inoculation effort to achieve herd immunity depends on communicating its efficacy and overcoming ‘vaccine hesitancy.’
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Our View: Unfortunately, vaccine may be best chance to cut virus short
It is proving difficult to otherwise hold together any sort of unified response.
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‘No’ vote – to keep state’s new vaccine law – wins by overwhelming margin
The proposal to overturn Maine’s new childhood vaccination requirement was losing badly as the tally mounted, with 74% of voters rejecting the ‘people’s veto’ effort.
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Mainers to cast ballots in Super Tuesday presidential primaries, vaccinations referendum
Maine is one of 14 states participating in the Super Tuesday primaries but has received relatively little attention from candidates aside from campaign advertising.