Beefing up contact tracing and disclosing data about it is the new challenge as the state continues its phased reopening plan.
Colin Woodard
Colin Woodard is the Press Herald’s State and National Affairs Writer, and is often at work on large investigative projects. Born in Waterville and raised in western Maine, he was a foreign correspondent for two decades, reported from more than fifty countries on all seven continents, and witnessed the collapse of communism and its bloody aftermath in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He’s written five books, including histories of Maine (The Lobster Coast), North America’s rival regional cultures (American Nations) and the Golden Age Pirates (Republic of Pirates), which was turned into a quickly forgotten NBC mini-series starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard. Since joining the Press Herald in 2012, he’s won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He used to be an avid sailor and SCUBA diver, but with small kids at home, his hobbies now include sleeping and picking up toys.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations fall across the state, even in southern Maine
More younger, healthier people are being tested now, and fewer of them have to be hospitalized when they get the disease.
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Maine CDC begins providing almost daily numbers for negative COVID-19 tests
Maine is the only state that has been unable to provide the key pandemic tracking metric.
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COVID-19 patients at Maine Med decrease dramatically with wave of deaths, recoveries
Coronavrius inpatient counts remain flat at most other Maine hospitals.
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Lewiston has had the most virus cases of any Maine ZIP code; part of Portland has the highest prevalence
The newly released data, covering only 55 of Maine’s 400 ZIP codes, show the northern Maine town of Medway with the second highest-caseload per capita.
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Maine still not providing basic COVID-19 metric but releases zip-code infection data
The Maine CDC is unable to provide full testing data each day but released zip-code level case counts and a searchable map Wednesday evening
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Portland’s major hospitals return to peak levels of COVID-19 patients
Maine Medical Center’s numbers match the early-April peak, while Mercy Hospital sets a new high.
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New cases spiking in southern Maine, raising concerns that COVID-19 is resurging
Androscoggin County’s daily trend has risen nearly 15-fold in recent weeks, while Cumberland County’s has tripled.
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Portland’s major hospitals see sharp increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations
But cases at most other hospitals across Maine remained flat over the past week.
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Maine CDC adds detailed pandemic data, promises more soon
Maine is the only state that’s not providing daily negative test data, and alone in New England in not reporting cases by town.