COVID-19 hospitalization increases by 12 in Maine

The number of people admitted to COVID-19 in Maine increased on Sunday.

As of Sunday morning, a total of 116 patients were admitted to hospitals throughout the state, 24 of whom were on critical care and two were on ventilator. This is a 12 increase from the number of 104 patients on Saturday, 16 of whom were in critical care center.

The number of inpatients across the state is around 100 over a month or more, even though the average number of new cases reported by the state has increased by about 50% from about 200 cases a day to about 300 cases in the past few weeks. It is changing at.

The Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not report new cases on Sunday due to suspension of treatment over the weekend. It reported 317 new cases on Saturday with no additional deaths.

The actual number of new infections is significantly higher than in the daily report, as many people now rely on home tests that are not included in the official numbers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Maine has recorded 242,033 cases and 2,280 deaths.

in the meantime, School officials in Maine and across the country We are watching if there will be more cases of COVID-19 when students return from their spring holidays on Monday.

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Local school supervisors relied on the same protocol that was being implemented before the break last week, leading to an increase in cases across the northeast fueled by the more contagious Omicron BA.2 subvariant. Nevertheless, he said he did not anticipate the need to restore Maskmandate.

Although there are slight differences in COVID 19 mitigation strategies within the state, districts usually leave masks as an option, and if a symptomatic student sees a positive result, take a test and stay home. I will continue to encourage you. The school will also continue pool testing, a way to save time and test supplies by combining samples from multiple people, until the state discontinues a federal-funded program on May 13. I am planning. situation.

The state plans to send free home test kits, including 5-6 tests, to schools that request them. They will start shipping the 211,048 test kits ordered next week. The school then makes the test kit available to the family.

The increase in infections in Maine is consistent with an increase throughout the northeast following the spread of the BA.2 Omicron subvariety. It is more contagious than the original Omicron variant.

Hospitalizations are beginning to increase in the northeast, though not as high as the infection rate. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new hospitalizations in New England have increased by 24% over the past week.

Public health experts say that both Omicron variants tend to cause less severe cases and are hospitalized because of the high levels of the population immunized by vaccination and previous infections, resulting in fewer people infected. I do not anticipate a big leap. Also, those who have been vaccinated and obtained a breakthrough case of COVID-19 are much more likely to get a mild version and do not need to be hospitalized.

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Aroostook County was reclassified last week as having a high risk of viral infection, according to federal data updated late Thursday.

The high-risk category of the US CDC’s COVID data tracker map means that community infections of the virus are high and can overwhelm hospital capacity. People living in high-risk areas are advised to wear masks indoors in public places.

Franklin County is currently considered to be at moderate risk. Residents of medium-risk counties are advised to wear a mask indoors if they are at high risk of complications from COVID-19 due to age or underlying illness.

All other Maine counties are classified as low risk. That is, there is no universal recommendation to wear a mask indoors. The virus is still prevalent in low-risk areas, but the disease is unlikely to overwhelm hospital capacity.

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