December has been a month of hope and concern, with COVID-19 vaccines deployed for the first time to hospitals across Maine but health officials warned that the state continues to battle “a surge on top of a surge.”
Hospitals this week received the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine and began inoculating frontline workers. The first phase of vaccinations focuses on healthcare workers in intensive care units, emergency rooms and COVID-19 wings of hospitals.
This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor.
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York Middle School goes remote until January
Portsmouth Herald
YORK, Maine Having already closed its building since the first week of December due to a COVID-19 outbreak investigation, York Middle School will remain closed for the rest of the year.
In a letter Tuesday announcing two more cases of the virus associated with YMS, Superintendent Lou Goscinski announced students would continue with distance learning through Dec. 22, with plans to resume in-person instruction after the holiday break, on Jan. 4, 2021. I must stress that COVID-19 community spread is on the rise, Goscinski said in the letter. Be mindful of all the people you come in contact with outside of your family. Please wear masks, social distance, sanitize your hands regularly, and continue to monitor yourself and your family members for symptoms.