• Published

  May 16, 2023
  

  Sen. King to formally recommend Shah be hired as director of federal CDC

  The Maine senator will draft a letter to the White House suggesting that the state's former CDC director replace Rochelle Walensky, who is stepping down in June.

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  January 23, 2023
  

  Dr. Nirav Shah makes his final rounds in Maine

  For perhaps the final time as the state's CDC director, Shah answered questions about the pandemic and health topics on the 'MaineCalling' public radio show.

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  August 1, 2022
  

  Second case of monkeypox reported in Maine

  CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah expects more cases but doesn't see a major cause for alarm because of how the disease is transmitted.

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  June 24, 2022
  

  Maine CDC Director Dr. Shah visits ‘COVID Still Sux’ rehearsal

  After Christine Henry's Broadway parody show, 'COVID Sux,' sold out in Monmouth, she decided to return to Maine with a sequel show — 'COVID Still Sux.'

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  February 28, 2022
  

  Shah: Maine health officials working to manage COVID-19 so it is no longer a crisis

  Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, tells Waterville Rotary Club 'we're not going to eliminate COVID' and 'it is going to be a fact of all of our lives.'

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  January 24, 2022
  

  Gov. Mills calls White House, gets more COVID-19 treatments for Maine despite undercount of cases

  Maine has been getting a smaller allocation of a monoclonal antibody treatment because of a large backlog of positive tests that have yet to be screened and added to the daily total of confirmed new cases.