Letter to the editor: Most vulnerable Mainers pushed aside
A volunteer vaccinator at MMC reports administering the COVID vaccine to MaineHealth employees while many people in much greater need still have no access.
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As a volunteer vaccinator at Maine Medical Center, I believe that MaineHealth CEO Bill Caron should be ashamed of himself for going against state guidelines in his decision to vaccinate young employees who have no face-to-face contact with patients.
At recent clinics I have vaccinated MaineHealth grant writers, research scientists from the Maine Medical Center Research Institute and medical records employees working from home. None of them was over 70 years old. Meanwhile, my wife’s 94-year-old father, living independently, was unvaccinated until very recently. Elderly patients of private-practice physicians remain unvaccinated. Rural Maine remains largely unvaccinated. What’s wrong with this picture?