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December has been a month of hope and concern, with COVID-19 vaccines deployed for the first time to hospitals across Maine but health officials warned that the state continues to battle “a surge on top of a surge.”
Hospitals this week received the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine and began inoculating frontline workers. The first phase of vaccinations focuses on healthcare workers in intensive care units, emergency rooms and COVID-19 wings of hospitals.
This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor.
The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journalism product published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic news organization based in Augusta.
Maine colleges lend critical research freezers as state mobilizes for historic vaccine rollout
UNE, SMCC, Bates and Colby lend ultra-cold freezers needed to store the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer.
Karen Houseknecht opened the email and read what could have been a line from a spy novel.
The state of Maine needed help from the University of New England and the matter had to be kept strictly confidential.
It was Tuesday, Nov. 17, and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention needed an untold number of ultra-cold freezers by that Friday. An initial shipment of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer was expected to be delivered to Maine the following Monday and it had to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit).
Maine hospitals prepare for COVID-19 vaccine
Northern Light Mercy Hospital has received a so-called preparation kit for a vaccine. MaineHealth has formed a task force. Author: Roslyn Flaherty (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 4:06 PM EST December 11, 2020 Updated: 5:48 PM EST December 11, 2020
PORTLAND, Maine As the coronavirus vaccine gets closer to coming to Maine, Northern Light Mercy Hospital in Portland received a so-called preparation kit for a coronavirus vaccine. Syringes, needles, alcohol swabs, and PPE, Northern Light Mercy Hospital s Pharmacy Director Amy Gamble said.
It s one of the places the kit was sent to in the state as part of Operation Warp Speed.