The variety of individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 continued to say no, the state reported Saturday. Maine additionally recorded 22 extra deaths.
Throughout Maine, there are 173 individuals hospitalized, the Maine Middle for Illness Management and Prevention reported. On Friday there have been 181 hospitalized with COVID-19, down considerably from Jan. 13 when 436 sufferers have been hospitalized, the pandemic excessive.
Of the 173 hospitalized with COVID-19 on Saturday, 39 have been in essential care items and 13 individual on ventilators.
In the meantime Maine residents in all but three counties should continue to wear masks in public, indoor spaces, as 13 counties continue to carry a high risk of COVID-19 transmission, in response to the the U.S. Middle for Illness Management and Prevention.
With fewer sick sufferers, many of the Maine Military Nationwide Guard members ended their deployment Friday to Maine hospitals and different well being companies.
The Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah tweeted that varied epidemiological markers of COVID-19 “present a quickly enhancing image, however with some methods to go nonetheless. Hospitalization knowledge are priceless as a result of they supply a lens on two vital elements of the pandemic proper now: medical severity and well being system capability.”
In accordance with the U.S. CDC, three Maine counties, Kennebec, Somerset and Waldo, now carry a medium danger of transmission, which suggests masks sporting is now not advisable for many. With a medium danger evaluation, the advice is those that are immunocompromised or excessive danger of extreme illness ought to proceed to put on masks in indoor, public settings. Everybody needs to be updated on vaccines and boosters.
The 13 counties that proceed to hold excessive danger of transmission are Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Washington and York.
The CDC suggestion for prime danger counties, along with everybody masking up in public, indoor areas embrace sporting well-fitting masks at Okay-12 colleges. Those that are immunocompromised or excessive danger for illness ought to contemplate non-essential indoor actions in public and keep improved air flow indoors when attainable, the CDC recommends. Everybody needs to be updated on vaccines and boosters.
Dr. Dora Anne Mills, the chief well being enchancment officer for the MaineHealth hospital community, is cautioning individuals to watch out even in locations the place the CDC is dropping the indoor masking suggestions. Individuals age 60 and older and people with underlying well being circumstances — which is way of Maine’s inhabitants — ought to proceed to put on masks in public indoors, Mills stated Friday.
“I’m going to proceed to masks indoors,” Mills stated. “I’m used to it, it doesn’t trouble me and I don’t need to get it. I’m going to proceed to put on one till the charges come down considerably,” she stated.
Whereas circumstances are enhancing in Maine, nevertheless, the demise toll in Maine from COVID-19 continues to develop. On Saturday the state reported one other 22 individuals have died from the virus, which suggests because the pandemic has begun 2,064 individuals have died, in response to the Maine CDC.
The whole circumstances, reported Saturday by the state, now numbers 226,120, or 867 greater than reported on Friday. These circumstances don’t mirror present circumstances as a result of Maine officers have been working to clear the backlog of unprocessed optimistic exams through the omicron wave in January.
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