Southern Maine Agency on Aging continues to help communities aging population
Organization moved to Biddeford from Scarborough earlier this year.
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A COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Biddeford on March 16. Here, Kennebunk Fire and Rescue paramedic David Garriepy administers a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination to Mary Rich of Waterboro following the official opening of the site at the Center for Shopping in Sanford on March 2. The Southern Maine Agency on Aging has helped coordinate vaccination clinics for seniors in York and Cumberland County.
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BIDDEFORD With all the changes brought on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Southern Maine Agency on Aging has worked to help seniors navigate new challenges, from technology and meal accessibility to vaccination information.
Southern Maine Agency on Aging continues its commitment to senior population
The organization moved its Scarborough office to a Biddeford location.
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A COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Biddeford on March 16. Here, Kennebunk Fire and Rescue paramedic David Garriepy administers a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination to Mary Rich of Waterboro following the official opening of the site at the Center for Shopping in Sanford on March 2. The Southern Maine Agency on Aging has helped coordinate vaccination clinics for seniors in York and Cumberland counties.
Tammy Wells photo
BIDDEFORD With all the changes brought on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Southern Maine Agency on Aging has worked to help seniors navigate new challenges, from technology and meal accessibility to vaccination information.
Island Ad-Vantages, April 29, 2021 and
The Weekly Packet, April 29, 2021
J&J ‘pause’ dampens local demand for vaccine
More shots available than people who want them?
by Leslie Landrigan
On April 13, 143 people had signed up for 100 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine available the next day at the town’s pop-up clinic. One hundred people got on the schedule, 43 on the waiting list.
Two weeks later, only a third of that number had signed up for Stonington’s next clinic on April 29.
The town had canceled the April 14 clinic because the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a temporary halt to the Johnson & Johnson shot. Six people who’d taken it developed a rare kind of blood clot. Ten days later, the CDC said the Johnson & Johnson shot was OK.
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Island Ad-Vantages, April 15, 2021 and
The Weekly Packet, April 15, 2021
‘Pause” in J&J vaccine puts pop-up clinics on hold
by Leslie Landrigan
Local pop-up clinics were canceled or delayed on April 13 just hours after federal health officials advised a pause in use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
Six cases of a rare and severe kind of blood clot were reported in people in the United States who had gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and so the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised the pause.
April clinics in Sedgwick, Brooksville, Stonington and Deer Isle were put on hold until the FDA and CDC recommend otherwise.