OOB, Kennebunk, Sanford, York County to administer COVID-19 vaccine to licensed EMTs This is an unprecedented undertaking and if everyone is patient, it will go very smoothly, Old Orchard Beach Fire Chief Fred LaMontagne said.
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Three local fire and EMS departments have been selected to administer COVID-19 vaccines, once approved, to EMS personnel county-wide and are coordinating plans with York County EMA. In this May photo, the first patient enrolled in Pfizer’s COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, receives an injection.
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There are many details and plans yet to work out, but three York County Fire and EMS agencies have been notified by the Maine Centers for Disease Control they have been selected to administer COVID-19 vaccines to their licensed peers throughout the county.