COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline in Maine

COVID-19 hospitalizations continued to say no in Maine on Thursday and have now decreased by 28 p.c since Could 17.

Maine recorded 166 hospitalized COVID-19 sufferers on Thursday, down from 177 on Wednesday. The affected person depend reached a three-month excessive of 231 on Could 17, in line with the Maine Middle for Illness Management and Prevention.

Of these hospitalized on Thursday, 15 have been in essential care and 4 have been on ventilators.

Additionally on Thursday, Maine recorded 556 new circumstances of COVID-19 and two extra deaths. Because the pandemic started, Maine has reported 261,587 circumstances of COVID-19 and a couple of,347 deaths.

Though seven-day each day averages have elevated by about 31 p.c nationwide, they’re beginning to decline in Maine and different components of the Northeast, the place subvariants of the extremely contagious omicron pressure hit earlier. Maine’s seven-day common has declined by 11 p.c over the previous week, whereas Connecticut has declined by 15 p.c and Rhode Island 9 p.c, in line with the New York Occasions COVID-19 tracker. New York and Massachusetts have skilled case decreases of 6 p.c over the previous week, whereas in New Hampshire circumstances have elevated by 6 p.c, and Vermont case have gone up 14 p.c.

Whereas circumstances are down in Maine, the state nonetheless has the ninth-highest an infection price within the nation, with a seven-day common of 43 circumstances per 100,000 residents.

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