COVID-19 is surging once more in Maine, with Cumberland County and eight different counties now categorised as being at excessive danger for transmission of the virus, in keeping with new knowledge launched by the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention on Thursday.
Maine’s different high-risk counties are Oxford, Androscoggin, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, Hancock, Penobscot and Aroostook. York, Franklin, Kennebec, Waldo, Piscataquis and Washington are medium danger, and Somerset County is low danger.
In counties the place there’s a excessive danger of transmission, the CDC recommends common masks sporting indoors. Masks are advisable for at-risk individuals in medium-level counties. The designations are primarily based on an infection charges, hospitalizations and hospital capability.
Final week, Maine’s southern and coastal areas had been faraway from the record of these experiencing excessive ranges of transmission, with Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln and Knox downgraded to medium danger. One week in the past, Aroostook, Piscataquis, Penobscot and Hancock had been the one counties at excessive danger. Piscataquis dropped to medium danger on Thursday, with no change in transmission ranges within the remaining three counties.
In the meantime, the variety of individuals hospitalized in Maine with COVID-19 edged larger Thursday because the state reported 791 new circumstances of the illness.
A complete of 228 individuals had been hospitalized as of Thursday morning, in keeping with the Maine Middle for Illness Management and Prevention. That’s up from 225 on Wednesday and barely under the three-month excessive of 231 sufferers hospitalized on Tuesday.
The variety of critically in poor health sufferers dropped from 34 on Wednesday to 31 on Thursday. Two sufferers had been on ventilators Thursday. No extra deaths had been reported Thursday.
Maine and the remainder of the Northeast proceed to expertise excessive charges of recent infections pushed by more and more contagious strains of the coronavirus. Whereas extra contagious, the omicron subvariants circulating now are much less more likely to trigger extreme illness than earlier variations of the virus. Hospitalizations haven’t elevated as quick because the an infection fee in current weeks, and the variety of critically in poor health sufferers has remained secure.
As of Thursday, Maine had the nation’s tenth highest an infection fee with 311 infections for 100,000 residents over the previous seven days, in comparison with the nationwide fee of 210 infections per 100,000 individuals, in keeping with the U.S. CDC.
The nation’s prime well being officers stated Wednesday that residents of states resembling Maine ought to step up their efforts to sluggish the unfold by masking indoors, avoiding crowds and testing themselves with at-home speedy checks, particularly earlier than indoor gatherings.
Because the pandemic started, Maine has recorded 257,749 circumstances and a pair of,337 deaths.
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