Collins backs bill to protect first responders centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Roughly 30% of Massachusetts State Police force weren’t vaccinated for COVID at department-run sites
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Roughly 30% of the Massachusetts State Police force have not received their coronavirus vaccinations at clinics run by the agency, despite first responders becoming eligible to get immunized more than two months ago, The Boston Globe reported.
Citing data released in response to a request from the Globe, the newspaper reported 845 of the 2,847 eligible employees in the state law enforcement department had not received either doses of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines at one of the agency’s clinics in Chicopee, Framingham or Plymouth as of Friday.
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Firefighters ‘Health Care Providers on a Truck’ Signal Pandemic Burnout
Tim Dupin thought or at least hoped that Missouri firefighters, paramedics and other emergency medical services personnel would be among the first to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
After months of feeling overlooked by elected leaders in the distribution of safety equipment and other resources, surely, Dupin thought, their role on the front line of the medical system would be recognized. They had, throughout the pandemic, responded to calls the way they always had: Without regard to whom or what they would encounter at the scene, interacting with people who could have the coronavirus, despite often having makeshift personal protective equipment and masks that were old, faulty or m
Maine Senate OKs bill to improve safety worker insurance
March 12, 2021
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) The Maine Senate has approved a proposal designed to help improve health insurance for retired firefighters and law enforcement officers.
The proposal, from Democratic Sen. Nate Libby of Lewiston, is designed to expand the open enrollment period for health insurance for retired county and municipal law enforcement officers and municipal firefighters. The Senate passed it unanimously on Friday.
Libby said the proposal is designed to build on a similar measure from two years ago that made changes to the health insurance program, such as making sure earned benefits are accrued and dispersed fairly.
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