The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization Saturday for Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine.
According to a release from the office of Governor Janet Mills, Maine expects to soon place its first order of 11,500 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
According to the release, the doses are expected to arrive along with 39,060 previously ordered first doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Altogether, Maine will receive 50,560 doses the week of March 1, according to state leaders. READ MORE
As she’s watched coronavirus cases in Maine and around the country fall, Casey Curneil has been wondering when her son might be able to get more in-person time at school. Hybrid learning has been difficult, and she worries about the social and academic impacts of screen time and time away from peers.
Working in real estate, it’s also hard for Curneil to bring her son, a second-grader at Portland’s Ocean Avenue Elementary School, and her preschool-age daughter with her to work. “For working parents, I don’t know how most people are surviving,” Curneil said on a recent afternoon as she picked her son, Carter, up from school. “At what point is this all going to be over?” READ MORE
Maine’s ambitious goal of cutting carbon out of its economy by the mid-21st century is facing a harsh reality: The network of wires and substations built to feed power from central generating stations to homes and businesses isn’t up to the job of handling the two-way, intermittent flow of energy from solar and wind farms to electric vehicles, heat pumps and giant storage batteries. READ MORE
