CONWAY — Two town officials, both fully vaccinated, recently contracted COVID-19. While one admits it changed his opinion on the need to wear masks, the other said he does not plan to wear one when he’s released from the hospital.
Joe Mosca, a member of the Conway School Board, and Steven Steiner, who serves on the Conway Zoning Board of Adjustment, as an alternate to the planning board and as chair of the Mount Washington Valley Republican Committee, said they thought the Johnson & Johnson vaccine they both got would protect them against COVID. It did not.
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“We went to Stephens Memorial (Hospital in Norway, Maine),” he said. “Julie got hydroxychloroquine" Really? Do the Doctors in Maine use hydroxychloroquine?
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