Nursing homes still wait for more vaccine, which could be coming Maine public health officials move to provide vaccine to long-term care facilities left without allocations while having new residents who are unvaccinated. Share Maine made some progress Monday in addressing the lack of COVID-19 vaccine allocated to long-term care facilities in the wake of the federal pharmacy program that prioritized nursing homes and assisted-living facilities at the start of the vaccine rollout. Additional vaccine could be available to long-term care facilities as soon as next week, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, after public health officials met with representatives of the state’s nursing homes and assisted-living facilities Monday morning.