The FEMA mobile vaccine unit giving COVID-19 vaccinations across Maine is accepting walk-up appointments while it is stationed in Windham. The site is only accepting walk-ups on Wednesday and Thursday, and only at the Windham location. "I think that's the group that is for whom convenience is the premium. These unscheduled hours is where I'm hoping to offer a service," said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC during Tuesday's media.
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Maine has launched its first mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
Starting at 11 a.m. on Monday at the Oxford Casino, people began to trickle in for vaccination appointments.
Gov. Janet Mills and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Regional Administrator Paul Ford were there to unveil the state s new weapon against the coronavirus. What a great day, Mills exclaimed before introducing her colleagues. They are some of the many people to whom we owe a great debt of gratitude and appreciation today for helping to set up this important milestone in the greatest logistical challenge Maine and the nation has undertaken in generations.
State, feds to launch mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit
Beginning Monday at the Oxford Casino, a new mobile vaccination unit will offer the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine in 11 rural or under-served Maine communities Author: Beth Brogan (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 2:32 PM EDT April 6, 2021 Updated: 2:32 PM EDT April 6, 2021
AUGUSTA, Maine Rural Mainers and those in underserved communities will soon find the COVID-19 vaccine closer to home thanks to a new mobile vaccination unit.
Beginning Monday at the Oxford Casino and then traveling throughout the state, the mobile vaccination unit is slated to provide the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine to as many as 250 people a day.