Maine reported one other enhance Tuesday within the variety of hospitalized sufferers with COVID-19.
A complete of 141 sufferers have been hospitalized statewide as of Tuesday morning, together with 22 in crucial care, based on the Maine Middle for Illness Management and Prevention. That’s up from 139 Monday and is the best quantity since early June.
Nevertheless, not one of the sufferers in intensive care Tuesday have been related to ventilators as a result of they might not breath on their very own, the state reported. That’s the first time since October 2020 there have been no Maine sufferers ailing sufficient to want a ventilator, based on CDC knowledge.
The state additionally reported 444 new COVID circumstances on Tuesday, the primary replace in three days. The seven-day common of recent circumstances held regular at 210 per day.
Hospitalizations even have been growing nationwide as new extra contagious omicron subvariants drive up an infection charges. The variety of new hospital admissions elevated 8 % nationwide over the previous week, based on the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
Whereas much less prone to trigger extreme sickness than earlier strains, omicron BA.4 and BA.5 are rather more transmissible and extra prone to infect individuals with some previous immunity, whether or not from vaccination or previous an infection. Well being officers say older individuals with underlying medical circumstances and youthful, unvaccinated persons are probably to want hospital care following an an infection.
Because the pandemic started, Maine has logged 273,567 circumstances and a pair of,464 deaths.
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