Main CDC reports 49 cases of coronavirus, 1 death

Saturday’s Main Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 49 new coronaviruses and 1 death, ending the week when the York County school’s anti-pandemic meter turned from yellow to green.

The new designation is Allow York County to resume student sports And other extracurricular activities. The southernmost county in Maine became a hotspot for the coronavirus at the end of summer, but cases have eased in the past few weeks, public health officials said.

The cumulative number of cases in Maine increased to 5,913 on Saturday, a net increase of 48 cases from Friday. The main CDC will correct the cumulative total number of cases based on the number of “potential” cases that later tested negative and the results of contact tracing studies, and the number of new cases reported on Saturday – 49 – Is more than the total daily difference. ..

Of these 5,913 cumulative cases, 5,283 have been confirmed by testing and 630 are considered potential COVID-19 cases.

According to the Maine CDC, it was a man over the age of 80 from York County who was reported dead on Saturday. 146 people died of COVID-19 in Maine and 5,112 recovered from the disease. Maine had 655 active cases on Saturday.

The York County “green” designation was given after the number of new cases had been halved for two consecutive weeks. From September 17th to September 30th, the county reported 175 cases, and from October 2nd to October 15th, only 85 cases were reported. All counties in Maine are currently green, but health officials are Androscoggin, Somerset, and Kennebec.

Still, the state-wide daily average of new cases has risen in recent months, from 14.1 two months ago to 28.9 a month ago and 30.9 on Friday.Maine virus prevalence remains It is one of the lowest countries in the country after Vermont.

Meanwhile, Maine public health officials are looking forward to the vaccine.Main Submit vaccine distribution plan On Friday, the federal government will prioritize the protection of health care workers and the elderly and take racial equality into account when distributing doses.

Assuming the supply is large enough, Maine can vaccinate 80% of the state’s population in 12 weeks, and once the program is fully launched, it will vaccinate about 120,000 per week. Says you can.

The Maine plan outlines the four phases of distribution.

Phase 1 includes healthcare workers in high-risk environments, people in groups, and some essential workers. Phase 2 immunizes people with underlying health, school staff, correctional facilities, and the elderly. Phase 3 extends the reach of young adults, children, people working in high-risk industries, or critical jobs that were not previously vaccinated. And by Phase 4, the vaccine will be available to everyone.

Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the main CDC, warned that finding a safe and effective vaccine would not eliminate the virus immediately.

“The day the vaccine is approved is not the day COVID-19 ends,” he said at a press conference Thursday. “COVID-19 does not magically disappear overnight. Vaccines take time.”

Some vaccines are in late-stage trials and are being driven by urgent demand.The Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved any of them, but it is possible Probably in early November.. Distribution will not take place until a few months at the earliest.

The main university system reported three active cases at eight schools on Saturday, one less than on Friday. The University of Maine in Augusta had two active cases and the University of Maine in Orono had one case. On Saturday, one person was released from quarantine at each of these two universities, but one new case was also found at the University of Maine, Orono, and the total number of active cases is stable at one.

Since the inception of the pandemic, there have been 832 COVIDs in each county in Maine-19 in Androscoggin, 56 in Aroostook, 2,421 in Cumberland, 73 in Franklin, 56 in Hancock and 56 in Kennebec. 288 cases, 57 cases in Knox, 52 cases in Lincoln, 157 cases in Oxford, 271 in Penobscot, 10 in Piscataquis, 77 in Sagadahoc, 127 in Somerset, 102 in Waldo, 20 in Washington, 1,313 in York.

By age, 12.7% of patients were under 20 years old, 16.4% were in their 20s, 15.4% were in their 30s, 13.9% were in their 40s, 16.1% were in their 50s, 11.4% were in their 60s, and 7.2% were in the 1970s. , 6.8% were over 80 years old.

Women still make up a small majority of cases, just over 51 percent.

The main CDC states that it will not update hospital capacity data on weekends from October 1st. On Friday, there were 11 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Maine, five of whom were in the intensive care unit and one on ventilator. The state had a total of 382 93 intensive care unit beds and 318 252 ventilators. There were also 444 alternative ventilators.

According to Johns Hopkins University, there were 39.4 million known cases of COVID-19 and 1.1 million deaths worldwide on Saturday. There were more than 8 million cases in the United States and 218,000 died.

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