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Dr. Laura Blaisdell, Maine Pediatrician, speaks in a video about the importance of No on Question 1 voting.

Helping audiences understand complex scientific advice around safe group gatherings, COVID-19 prevention, and overcoming vaccine hesitancy.

Dr. Laura Blaisdell draws people in with proven scientific advice and insight and clear, easy-to-understand advice about COVID-19 and other disease prevention and vaccines in schools, camps, and businesses.

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MAINE VACCINE REFERENDUM

+ Maine’s childhood vaccination rate goes from one of nation’s lowest to one of the highest — Portland Press Herald, June 21, 2023

+ Our View: Public health big winner in Maine’s special election — Portland Press Herald, March 4, 2020

+ Vaccine Exemptions Defeated In Maine, A New Law Dividing Parents Is Upheld — NPR, March 3, 2020

+ Rumination on a Referendum — Maine Medicine, Spring 2020

+ Maine Referendum Could Bring Back Religious And Philosophical Exemptions For Vaccines — NPR, February 27, 2020

Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Maine

+ Vaccinated child had Maine’s first case of measles in 2 years, say health officials — Portland Press Herald, May 21, 2019

+ New whooping cough cases jumped in October, to highest monthly total of 2018 — Portland Press Herald, Nov. 19, 2018

+ State on high alert as whooping cough cases soar in York County — Portland Press Herald, Oct. 19, 2018

+ Pertussis cases spike in Maine, hit schools in Cumberland, Yarmouth — Portland Press Herald, April 11, 2017

+ Chickenpox cases prompt exclusion of 5 unvaccinated students from Yarmouth school — Portland Press Herald, Oct. 3, 2016

+ Locations of Maine disease outbreaks withheld, but why? — Portland Press Herald, June 3, 2015

+ Incidence of chicken pox soars in Maine schools — Portland Press Herald, June 1, 2015

Camping and COVID-19

+ How Camps Can Manage the Summer 2021 Covid-19 Surge — Campings, March 18, 2021

+ Despite Covid-19 Outbreak Risks, Summer Camps Are Filling Up Quickly — Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2021

+ Class Without Coronavirus: Students Take Schoolwork To Sleepaway Camp — NPR, September 9, 2020

+ Sleep Away Camps Offer COVID-Free Bubbles For Remote Learning — NPR, September 8, 2020

+ Want to reopen schools? Summer camps show how complicated it will be. — National Geographic, August 2, 2020

+ Fewer will attend camps this summer; some camps won’t survive — Washington Post, July 5, 2020