Maine CDC reports 170 new coronavirus cases, no more deaths

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Sunday on 170 cases of the new coronavirus and no additional deaths, as Mainers looked forward to vaccine immunity while it was a year since the pandemic closed the state.

Schools suddenly closed, leaving water bottles and homework assignments on the desk. Sports seasons have been canceled. Movie sets came to a screeching halt. Friday a year ago, everything started to close when the first case of COVID-19 was detected in Maine. For this gloomy anniversary, Mainers spoke to the Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram about their experiences in the days when the world suddenly changed.

Maine’s cumulative COVID-19 cases rose to 47,025 on Sunday. Of these, 36,546 were confirmed by tests and 10,479 are considered probable cases of COVID-19. The seven-day average of new daily cases was 178.1.

Seven hundred and twenty-four people have died with COVID-19 since the Maine pandemic began.

Some people’s passions were completely ruined – a university basketball coach lamented ‘the opportunity the girls stole’ in her pandemic year team – but others were forced to adapt and move on. Teachers continued to teach and social workers continued to help others.

For many older Mainers, the past year has been extremely isolated. The virus is the deadliest for people of advanced age and is the best prescription to stay indoors, away from grandchildren and social clubs that have given color to life.

Noella Rocheleau, who was born on Christmas Day in 1929, never met three of her four older brothers; they died in the flu pandemic of 1918. Last year, when the coronavirus struck, she lived at 75 State Street, an independent facility in Portland. She spent the past year in her third-floor apartment in virtually total isolation.

“It’s sometimes hard to swallow, but they have 150 people here, so they have to take care of us,” she said. “We can not all do what we want to do. You’re like family. If someone is sick, you do not scream or scream or sing that day. ”

Meanwhile, Mainers is looking forward to extensive access to COVID-19 vaccines. Following federal guidance, the state will expand fitness for all adults from May 1st.

Maine now vaccinates people 60 years and older, as well as teachers and educational staff, but the Biden government last week instructed the countries to open the doors even wider because they promised to dramatically increase the vaccine supply.

Prior to the White House mission, Maine planned to offer shots to people 40 years and older from May 1st.

As of Sunday morning, Maine had given 320,885 people their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 187,495 had been fully vaccinated. Of Maine’s population of 1.34 million, 23.87 percent now receive the first dose, according to Maine CDC statistics.

Nationwide per province as of Sunday, there were 4,981 cases of coronavirus in Androscoggin, 1,314 in Aroostook, 13,220 in Cumberland, 937 in Franklin, 959 in Hancock, 3,905 in Kennebec, 697 in Knox, 607 in Lincoln, 2,324 in Oxford , 4,199 in Penobscot, 356 in Piscataquis, 911 in Sagadahoc, 1,294 in Somerset, 636 in Waldo, 737 in Washington and 9,956 in York.

By age, 15.6 percent of patients were younger than 20, while 18.1 percent were in their twenties, 14.4 percent in their thirties, 13.2 percent were in their 40s, 15.3 percent were in their 50s, 11.6 percent were in their 60s, 6.4 percent were in their 70s, and 5.4 percent were 80 or older.

Of the 78 patients with COVID-19 in Maine hospitals, 23 were in intensive care on Sunday and nine in ventilators. The state has 108 beds for intensive care units out of a total of 389 available, and 243 fans out of 319 available. There were also 446 alternative fans.

According to Johns Hopkins University, there were 119.7 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide and 2.65 million deaths worldwide on Sunday night. The United States had 29.4 million cases and 534,810 deaths.

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