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A COVID-19 vaccination clinic, offered in partnership with Penobscot Community Health Center, will be held at Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine from 1â5 p.m., Wednesday, April 28, offering the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the two-shot Moderna vaccine. The second Moderna vaccination also will be administered at a clinic at Wells Conference Center.
No appointment is necessary; community members will choose which vaccine they wish to receive during the registration process at Wells.
There is no charge for the vaccine. Proof of insurance is not required. If you have medical insurance, please bring your insurance card it so that any administrative costs can be billed to your insurer. There are no out-of-pocket costs for receiving the vaccine.
Jails struggle to get vaccines for people in custody
With multiple outbreaks in Maine jails and vaccine supplies trickling in from the state, some jails are seeking doses from health care providers in their communities.
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Even though people held in jails or prisons are eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, the Maine Department of Corrections has been slow to get doses to county jails, so much so that some have looked to other options to get shots in arms.
Corrections officers were eligible for vaccines starting in January. But while federal guidance said incarcerated people should be vaccinated at the same time as the officers, Maine didn’t begin offering vaccines to the oldest people in state prisons until last month. Just 284 of roughly 1,600 people in prisons, about 18 percent, had been vaccinated as of April 9, the most recent number provided by the state.
More Vaccinations Still Needed in Maine’s Rural Areas
Rural health experts said the clinics represent an important shift in priorities with more than one-third of Mainers fully vaccinated, although more flexible options may be needed to reach those in remote areas. by Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News, Maine / April 13, 2021 TNS
(TNS) - Apr. 13 Maine launched its first mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Monday morning, marking a shift from directing relatively few doses to large sites to trying to fill gaps in access across the state less than a week after everyone 16 and older became eligible.
The federal-state partnership is one of the more significant developments in Maine s vaccination effort, which has largely sent doses to established providers like hospitals to date. The two-month roving clinic will send one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccines to some poorer and more remote areas where people may struggle to
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