Maine colleges lend critical research freezers as state mobilizes for historic vaccine rollout
UNE, SMCC, Bates and Colby lend ultra-cold freezers needed to store the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer.
Karen Houseknecht opened the email and read what could have been a line from a spy novel.
The state of Maine needed help from the University of New England and the matter had to be kept strictly confidential.
It was Tuesday, Nov. 17, and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention needed an untold number of ultra-cold freezers by that Friday. An initial shipment of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer was expected to be delivered to Maine the following Monday and it had to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit).
Kuster gets vaccine; nurses union makes hospital demands
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Kuster gets vaccine; nurses union makes hospital demands
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AUGUSTA The Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has placed a third order for COVID-19 vaccine with Operation Warp Speed and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Maine CDC ordered doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 8,775 people.
This third order is approximately 40 percent lower than originally planned, after Operation Warp Speed informed Maine late Wednesday the maximum number of Pfizer vaccines available to the state for week two of distribution is 8,775 doses, rather than the 13,650 doses previously estimated, according to a news release.
Kuster gets vaccine; NH reports 676 new virus cases, 12 deaths
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U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster said she has received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Washington upon the advice of her physician.
“I believe in the science and I want to demonstrate to my constituents in New Hampshire that this vaccine is safe and effective,” the Democrat said in a statement on Friday after getting the vaccine.
Kuster, 64, said she s been heartened to see thousands of frontline workers and those who are most at risk in New Hampshire get the vaccine.
“I am also pleased that Moderna’s safe, effective vaccine has now been authorized by the FDA and millions of doses will be distributed across the United States in the coming weeks.”