Dozens of Maine schools now using COVID rapid tests for students and staff
The Maine CDC has distributed more than 4,000 rapid tests to K-12 schools since early November.
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William H. Rowe School nurse Jill Webber in her office in Yarmouth on Friday. The Yarmouth schools have received 160 rapid tests. Webber said the rapid tests help the schools immensely, and wishes she had more. “The efficiency and speed at which we can do the testing is going to reduce transmission in schools and the community,” she said.
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Nearly 50 Maine schools and school districts are now using rapid-result coronavirus tests on symptomatic students and staff to quickly identify positive cases and to improve the contact tracing and quarantine process.
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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Anne and Armand Bouchard of Harpswell are in their 80s and both have Type II diabetes. They wonder when they might get COVID-19 vaccinations.
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People around Maine are wondering when they might have the chance to get vaccinated, now that the state is in the early stages of coronavirus vaccine distribution with front-line health care workers receiving the first shots.