Wiscasset Selectmen’s Chair Sarah Whitfield plans to regularly release bulletins that share town governments news and other information. They will also appear at wiscasset.org and on the Wiscasset Selectman Sarah Whitfield Facebook page. Here is the.
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Is regularly pool-testing students and adults for COVID–19 doable, and could it help prevent spread? Wiscasset School Committee listened and asked questions Tuesday night, May 11 as staff nurse Marilyn Sprague explained the program she said the state is encouraging. After hearing Sprague’s answers and Wiscasset Middle High School Assistant Principal-Athletic Director Warren Cossette’s support for the idea, the committee gave Sprague the go-ahead.
According to the discussion, if the department went through with the pool testing, it would likely start next fall, the department would first be charged $185 for a waiver involving the lab testing; classes or other pools of students and adults would, unless they opt out, take nasal samples with swabs that would then go to Boston for testing, the department would have results within 24 hours, and any positives would mean more testing to find who it was. Pool testing aims to detect a cas
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Primary care doctors say they’re left out of vaccination efforts
Physicians not affiliated with hospitals or major health organizations say their patients are scared – and asking questions their caregivers can t answer.
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Dr. Cortney Linville at the practice she owns, Wiscasset Family Medicine on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Dr. Linville said that her practice, other private practices in the state, have been given no indication whether or not they will be receiving COVID-19 vaccines to administer to their patients. The office got 500 calls on Tuesday after the state made an announcement about mass vaccinations. “We have zero information to give people,” Linville said. Staff photo by Brianna Soukup