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REGION University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy announced Tuesday, Dec. 22, that universities will return to in-person classes for the spring semester beginning Jan. 25.
“What we’re going to do in the semester starting in January is largely built on the successful practices that we engaged in during the first semester,” Malloy said during a Zoom press conference.
UMaine campuses will continue to offer a fully-remote coursework option to students and professors, maintain social distancing protocols and a mask-at-all-times policy.
The major difference spring semester will pose is an increase in COVID-19 testing to once a week, although Malloy said the UMaine System is still working on this detail. Funding and test availability will impact UMaine’s weekly coronavirus screening goal which is based on current and projected increase trends in the number of COVID-19 cases.
1st COVID-19 vaccines in Maine given to health care workers
By PATRICK WHITTLEDecember 15, 2020 GMT
Nurse Kayla Mitchell, of Maine Medical Center’s COVID ICU unit in Portland, Maine, becomes the first person in the state to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (Charlie Berg/Maine Medical Center via AP)
Nurse Kayla Mitchell, of Maine Medical Center’s COVID ICU unit in Portland, Maine, becomes the first person in the state to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (Charlie Berg/Maine Medical Center via AP)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Front-line health care workers were the the first people given the COVID-19 vaccine in Maine, the director of the state’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Maine’s public university system says it plans to use a new task force to assist with distributing the coronavirus vaccine and recommending changes to the system’s immunization requirements.
University system officials say University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy is charged with appointing the Vaccine Planning and Partnership Task Force.
The systems says the task force will also be responsible for “contributing to student and public awareness about the efficacy and safety of FDA-approved vaccines.”
The task force will include University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy as its chair and it’s scheduled to issue a report on Jan. 25.