Maine bill would exempt online charter schools from vaccine requirements

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Published
March 9, 2020

Maine bill would exempt online charter schools from vaccine requirements

Lawmakers took public testimony Monday on a bill that would exempt online charter schools from a new vaccine requirement that eliminates philosophical and religious exemptions.
Published
March 2, 2020

Voters go to the polls today to decide vaccine question, party primaries

Democrats, Republicans to choose U.S. presidential picks.
Published
February 19, 2020

Maine reports first flu-related death of child in 2019-20 season

The child was younger than 5 and had not been vaccinated.
Published
February 10, 2020

Pharmaceutical companies fund ad campaign to support Maine’s new vaccine law

A lobbying firm is spending $476,000 for TV ads defending the law against a repeal vote on the March 3 ballot, prompting opponents of the law to say the funding is an effort by Big Pharma to control Maine's vaccine policy.
Published
January 31, 2020

Citing coronavirus, Mills urges voters to uphold Maine’s new vaccine law

Maine's governor uses her weekly radio address to attack a citizens' veto effort that would overturn the state's new law to eliminate non-medical exemptions for childhood vaccines.
Published
October 17, 2019

Opponents of new vaccine law will get their shot at overturning it at the polls

Maine's secretary of state has certified the voter signatures on a petition that calls for voters to decide on the law ending religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccines.
Published
October 17, 2019

Seniors find high-dose flu vaccines hard to come by

Health officials say the shortage is only temporary and supplies of the high-dose shots often used by seniors will be available soon.
Published
October 16, 2019

Chiropractors give a big boost to people’s veto campaign against new vaccine law

Of the $161,841 raised so far by Mainers for Health and Parental Rights, at least $51,225 has come from chiropractors, according to a Press Herald analysis.
Published
September 23, 2019

Some Mainers say opponents of vaccine law misled them in petition effort

Other voters are writing Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, asking him to remove their signatures.
Published
July 9, 2019

Opponents of a dozen new laws aim to erase them with ‘people’s veto’ campaigns

With a short time to collect 63,067 signatures, special interest groups and individuals file more than a dozen requests to challenge newly signed laws.