The shots developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health are set to arrive Monday, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the fight against the coronavirus.
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Pence, leaders in Congress get COVID vaccine; Trump absent
The public displays come as top U.S. health officials try to persuade Americans who may be skeptical of the vaccinations to get them to pave the way for the end of the pandemic.
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Maine to get 40% less vaccine than expected for next week
The Maine CDC was informed by Operation Warp Speed on Thursday that it will receive 8,775 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, not the 13,650 doses the state had been expecting.
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FDA vows to move ‘rapidly’ to authorize second coronavirus vaccine
The government is preparing to ship almost 6 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, which won an advisory committee’s endorsement Thursday.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn
St. Mary’s workers get COVID-19 vaccine; more to come
The hospital also expects to get 300 doses of Moderna vaccine once it’s approved for use.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn
Photo Galleries: Health care workers are vaccinated as Maine reports 590 new COVID-19 cases
St. Mary’s Regional medical Center in Lewiston received about 400 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, and started giving them to their staff Thursday.
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Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine gets public review ahead of likely approval
It’s the next-to-last step for the vaccine developed by drugmaker Moderna and the National Institutes of Health.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Another day, another record: Maine reports 590 new cases
Nine more deaths were reported as well. New cases, as well as hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, continue to surge to unprecedented levels in Maine and across the country.
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Health officials track safety as COVID-19 vaccines roll out
Monitoring vaccines for unexpected side effects is a bigger challenge than usual, because so many people need to be vaccinated and so many vaccines made in different ways are converging at the same time.
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Norway hair salon Cut Loose reopens after COVID-19 outbreak
Cut Loose reopened Tuesday after a deep clean and following consultations with doctors and the Maine CDC.