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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 a...

Colby, Unity colleges provide freezer storage to Maine CDC for Pfizer vaccine The two institutions are among several that have offered assistance to Maine CDC, loaning freezers to that state that can store 10,000 or more doses of the vaccine. Share Unity College employees load a freezer bound for a Maine CDC installation that can keep its contents as cold as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit for storage of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Photo courtesy of Unity College Colby and Unity are among sever...

Maine to get 40% less vaccine than expected for next week The Maine CDC was informed by Operation Warp Speed on Thursday that it will receive 8,775 doses of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine, not the 13,650 doses the state had been expecting. Share Pharmacy Director Vahid Rohani prepares a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. Nurses were scheduled to vaccinate over 200 St. Mary’s health care workers. A 40 percent shortfall in the number of doses Maine will ha...

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...

Published December 17. 2020 7:18PM  Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post WASHINGTON — State officials said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTechs vaccine had been drastically cut for next week, sparking widespread confusion and conflicting statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who was to blame. The reduction prompted concern in health departments across the country about whether Operati...

Read Article Pharmacy Director Vahid Rohani prepares a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. Nurses were scheduled to vaccinate over 200 St. Mary’s health care workers. A 40 percent shortfall in the number of doses Maine will have next week means the state cannot fully launch its retail pharmacy program aimed at vaccinating residents and staff members of long-term care facilities.  Daryn Slover/Sun Journal The federal government has told the Maine C...

States report confusion as government reduces vaccine shipments, while Pfizer says it has ‘millions’ of unclaimed doses Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun, Josh Dawsey © Stephanie Zollshan /AP Margo Mazzeo, a nurse in the coronavirus testing center, is the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., Thursday. (Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle via AP) Officials in multiple states said they were al...

Maine hospitals get extra vaccine doses in first shipments Vials of Pfizers vaccine shipped to Maine and other states this week were found to each contain at least one extra dose, the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Share 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 rou...

Big coronavirus case spikes in Maine reported this week Travis Andersen © Derek Davis Nurse Kayla Mitchell of Maine Medical Center’s COVID ICU unit in Portland, beccame the first person in the state to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. Maine public health officials on Thursday reported 590 new COVID-19 cases in the state, a significant one-day spike for a state that’s reported nearly 18,000 cases since March. Robert Long, a spokesman for the Maine Cent...

After push from Maine Attorney General, Phippsburg board adopts Mills’ mask mandate In a letter to the Phippsburg Select Board, Attorney General Aaron Frey wrote Gov. Mills’ executive order makes the board “legally obligated to require the use of face coverings in all municipal buildings.” Share The Phippsburg Board of Selectmen voted Wednesday to follow Gov. Janet Mills’ mandate requiring people to wear a face mask in municipal buildings. Kathleen O’Brien / The Times Record PHIP...