‘Our D-Day’: Brunswick hospital opening vaccine clinic Jan. 25
Mid Coast Hospital will start administering the vaccine to people 70 and older at the Brunswick Parks and Rec Center.
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Avita of Brunswick resident, Connie, receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic held at the assisted living facility this week.
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BRUNSWICK Mid Coast Hospital will open a vaccination clinic at Brunswick Landing the site of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station Monday. The hospital will administer COVID-19 vaccinations to those 70 and older by appointment only.
The clinic will administer more than 800 vaccines a day, six days a week, reaching about 75,000 people by the end of July, Mid Coast-Parkview Health President Lois Skillings told the Brunswick Town Council Tuesday.
Maine’s medical networks plan large-scale vaccination clinics
The standalone clinics are necessary because most medical facilities don t have enough space and staffing to administer COVID-19 vaccines to the wider public under pandemic protocols.
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Maine’s major medical networks are planning to set up large-scale, standalone vaccination clinics to help inoculate the wider public against COVID-19 as more vaccine becomes available and more people become eligible.
Mid Coast-Parkview Health, which includes Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, announced plans Friday to establish a regional vaccination clinic that would be able to administer more than 800 vaccine doses daily and be accessible to all eligible patients and community members.
The recent shipment of the Moderna vaccine, coupled with the existing doses of the Pfizer, will allow the remaining patient-facing staff in the agency’s practices and home care clinics to be immunized.