Skilled nursing homes plan to begin vaccinating residents and staff members on Monday.
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First hiccups seen in U.S. effort to deliver COVID-19 vaccine
Four delivery trays of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were pulled back from delivery to California and Alabama this week and sent back to the company because they were colder than anticipated.
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How will you know it’s your turn for the vaccine? It’s unclear.
Who gets vaccinated when depends on factors including the supply and how quickly health care workers and people in nursing homes get inoculated.
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FDA confirms effectiveness, safety of Moderna vaccine
Hundreds more U.S. hospitals are gearing up to vaccinate their workers as federal health officials posted a positive review of a second COVID-19 shot.
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What Mainers should know about the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines
Who has vaccines in Maine? Two Maine hospitals received doses Monday morning, the first shipments to the state. Northern Light Mercy Hospital in Portland and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor each received 975 doses. Who is next? Five other large hospitals are expecting deliveries Tuesday. Those range from 1,885 doses for Maine […]
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The View From Here: Even with the vaccine, the message the same
We may be closer to the end of the pandemic, but we are nowhere near back to normal.
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Only half of Americans want shots as COVID-19 vaccine approval nears, poll shows
Many on the fence have safety concerns and want to see how the initial rollout fares – skepticism that could hinder the campaign against the scourge that has killed nearly 290,000 Americans.
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Former presidents say they would get vaccine publicly to boost confidence
Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton say they’d be willing to publicly take a coronavirus vaccine, once one becomes available, to encourage all Americans to get inoculated.
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Maine hospitals preparing for rollout of COVID-19 vaccines
Hospital systems across the state are lining up ultra-cold freezers and preparing to vaccinate staff and other community members within weeks, but some Mainers may not be vaccinated until later next year.
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Britain OKs Pfizer vaccine and will begin shots within days
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not scheduled to consider the vaccine until Dec. 10.