COVID-19 vaccine wait continues for more than 100,000 Maine seniors
Of Maine s 193,000 eligible older residents, about 80,500 have gotten the COVID-19 shot.
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Gloria Bailey, 81, of Lewiston received a COVID-19 vaccine recently from nurse Katie Graffam at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. About 40% of Mainers 70 or older have gotten the shot.
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Vaccine Resources
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center: Visit stmarysmaine.com/patient-and-visitor-information/covid-vaccine or call 207-755-3100.
MaineHealth vaccine clinic, Norway: Call 877-780-7545 or text MaineHealth to 877-780-7545
Still, the wait continues for many.
Twenty-three Wal-Mart pharmacies, including those in Auburn, Brunswick, Farmington, Mexico and Oxford, are expected to receive about 200 doses each this week. However, Wal-Mart’s vaccine website on Monday showed no available appointments for this week yet at any of those stores.
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“Wild horses couldn’t have kept me away,” Robert, an active retired judge who served on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, said.
At 11:25 a.m. Thursday, the couple he’s 83, she’s 85 were among the first members of the general public to get the vaccine at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston.
“It went great,” he said. “We were happy, so happy, to get the call.”
St. Mary’s received 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week. Of those, 120 will go to people at the B Street Health Center in downtown Lewiston.