Dr. Nirav Shah dispensed vital public health information during an uncertain time and also found time to quote Rick Astley song lyrics and encourage people to eat more soup.
Dr. Nirav Shah, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention who became the face of the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is leaving for a high-ranking post in federal disease control, officials said Thursday.
Shah, a bespectacled epidemiologist who came to Maine from Illinois, became well known in northern New England during the early days of pandemic because of his folksy, often humorous news conferences. A year after Maine identified its first COVID case, the state reached some positive milestones, even as it remembered the 720 Mainers lost to the panademic."We defied predictions, protected vulnerable residents and helped our neighbors with empathy and equity," he said."Whether it was the volume of PPE delivered, the number of vaccines given or the cases of Diet Coke consumed, Maine led the nation.
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