Today is Friday. Temperatures will be in the low to high 20s from north to south, with partly sunny skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re taking about in Maine today.
In this March 19, 2020, file photo, a man walks by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Water Street in Augusta. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Sixty-two residents and 31 staff members at Island Nursing Home have tested positive for the coronavirus in just more than three weeks, since the first case was detected. Twelve residents have died.
In this July 27, 2020, file photo, a nurse prepares a syringe during a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, New York. Credit: Hans Pennick / AP Credit: Hans Pennick / AP
In Maine, the new vaccine means that capacity will nearly double. More rural hospitals are expected to get their first dedicated doses next week as pharmacies mobilize to vaccinate staff and residents at skilled nursing and other residential facilities. Here’s what you need to know.
In this May 4, 2020, file photo, a patient enrolled in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial gets a dose at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Credit: Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP
Maine’s nursing homes are preparing to vaccinate staff and vulnerable residents by next week, but the rollout is plagued with questions as homes report start times into January amid concerns about vaccine volume and the pharmacy giants leading the effort.
Louis Sockalexis, in an undated photo taken during his professional baseball career between 1897 and 1907. Credit: Public domain
It was a historic day in 1897 when Louis Sockalexis, a 26-year-old member of the Penobscot tribe, became the first Native American Major League Baseball player, taking the field for the Cleveland Spiders. But Sockalexis was met with shouted racial slurs, demeaning “war whoops” and fans doing “war dances” every time he took the field.
Maine game warden Jeremy Judd leaves the courtroom after he pleaded guilty Wednesday to a disorderly conduct charge from an incident in July 2019 at a Bangor concert and in exchange for his plea, charges of assault and unlawful sexual touching filed against Judd were dismissed. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
The discipline is part of a civil agreement reached last week between Jeremy Judd of Mechanic Falls and the Maine Criminal Justice Academy Board of Trustees. The academy’s decision prompted the Maine Warden Service to place Judd on administrative leave for the second time in 18 months.
J.D. Greenway (middle) of the University of Maine men’s hockey team skates the puck away from Boston University players during a March 2020 game at Alfond Arena in Orono. Credit: Courtesy of Pete Buehner Credit: Peter Buehner / UMaine Athletics
The student-athletes are in quarantine, but contact tracing done by the University of Maine Emergency Operations Center deemed that the coaching and direct support staff of men’s hockey team were not considered close contacts requiring mandatory quarantine as outlined by guidance from the University of Maine System and the Maine CDC.
