Monday’s COVID-19 case remains low, reports Maine CDC

There were 150 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and no additional deaths in Maine. Continuing the low number of cases that led to state officials easing some pandemic restrictions last week, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Presidents Day.

Sunday’s case was 120 with two additional deaths, and there were 164 new cases and four deaths were reported Saturday.

The total hospital admissions dropped to 94, which was the first time since November 22 that it was less than 100.

Maine’s average of seven days of new daily falls fell to 183.1, well below the high of 625.3 on January 14, but still several times higher than the low averages of summer and early fall. Led by the recent drop in the number of cases, government officials last week moved all counties in Maine to the lowest risk ‘green’ status, meaning all schools are considered safe for personal instruction, with some precautions against infection.

Maine’s cumulative case COVID-19 rose to 42,677 on Monday. Of these cases, 34,003 were confirmed by tests and 8 674 are considered probable cases.

Six hundred and forty-nine people have died from COVID-19 since the Maine pandemic began. The two deaths reported Sunday were 80-year-old women in Cumberland County.

Maine gave 174,426 people the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, and 71,429 received a second dose. That means 12.98 percent of Maine’s 1.3 million people received their first dose.

York County, however, lagged behind in the distribution of vaccines. The country’s southernmost province recorded the most cases per capita and about 20 percent of all cumulative cases since the pandemic, but according to Maine’s CDC statistics, it gave only 11 percent of the vaccine doses. Adjacent provinces of Cumberland and Sagadahoc vaccinated more than 14 percent of their residents, while York County gave only about 9 percent of vaccines.

The region has been a hub for viral spread for the past few months, but still has only two vaccination clinics. It is located in Southern Maine Health Care’s Hospital in Biddeford and in York Hospital. Cumberland County has eight clinics. A mass vaccination clinic is expected to open later this month in Sanford, York County. The clinic is expected to open in the former Marshalls store off Main Street.

As of Monday, there were 4,626 cases of coronavirus in Androscoggin, 1,231 in Aroostook, 11,993 in Cumberland, 875 in Franklin, 855 in Hancock, 3,478 in Kennebec, 614 in Knox, 544 in Lincoln, 2,121 in Oxford, 3,689 in Oxford Penobscot, 241 Piscataquis, 848 in Sagadahoc, 1,215 in Somerset, 567 in Waldo, 693 in Washington, and 9,082 in York.

Dr Jules Bodo was vaccinated in December by Bobbie Olsen, a registered nurse, at Rumford Hospital, part of the Central Maine Healthcare Network. As of Monday, 12.98 percent of Maine’s 1.3 million people had received their first dose. Shawn Patrick Ouellette / Staff Photographer

At age, 15.2 percent of Maine COVID-19 patients were under 20 during the pandemic, while 18 percent were in their twenties, 14.4 percent in their thirties, 13.1 percent in their 40s, 15.3 percent in their 50s, 11.7 percent were in their 60s, 6.7 percent were in their 70s, and 5.7 percent were 80 or older.

Of the 94 patients with COVID-19 who were in Maine hospitals Monday, 25 were in intensive care and 10 in ventilators. The state has 118 beds for intensive care units out of a total of 388 available, and 245 fans out of 319 available. There were also 446 alternative fans. Maine hospitalized 101 patients with COVID-19 and 28 were in intensive care.

There were more than 108.9 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide and more than 2.6 million deaths worldwide on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States had 27.6 million cases and 485,300 deaths.

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