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Read Article The thousands of vials of COVID-19 vaccine that arrived in Maine this week came with an unexpected bonus – each contains at least one extra dose. Maine and other states effectively received 20 percent more doses than expected in the first round of shipments, allowing hospitals to protect more front-line workers as part of the initial vaccine rollout, said Robert Long, spokesman for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “Maine CDC informed hospitals of this chang...

St. Mary’s workers get COVID-19 vaccine; more to come The hospital also expects to get 300 doses of Moderna vaccine once its approved for use. Share Intensive care physician Dr. Peter Bagley and intensive care nurse Debra Charest, right, receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. Nurses Lisa MacKenzie, left, and Christie Adams, second from right, helped administer over 200 COVID-19 vaccinations Thursday to health care workers...

Both considered it no more daunting than getting a flu shot. “If it’s going to protect me while I’m here for the patients … then I want all the protection I can get,” Charest said. St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston received about 400 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Three hundred will be given to St. Mary’s medical workers and the remaining 100 were given to Central Maine Medical Center, a hospital with a larger staff and in need of more doses to accommodate thei...