Out-of-staters accounted for more than 11 percent of all positive tests over the past two weeks and have a positivity rate more than four times higher than state residents.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maine fall to new lows
Cumulative hospital counts for the week are at their lowest levels since the opening days of the pandemic.
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As national labs bog down, some Mainers face long delays for COVID-19 test results
Maine’s self-reliant testing system is insulating most patients from long turnarounds that render tests ‘functionally useless.’
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Numbers of COVID-19 patients in Maine hospitals sink to new lows
Maine Medical Center in Portland had the fewest pandemic inpatients this week since the opening days of the pandemic.
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Maine’s official island registry removed for review after illegal, racist names discovered
Three Maine islands officially have a horrible racial slur in their name 43 years after the state banned it. Two incorporate a Native American slur banned for 19 years.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations stay low across much of Maine
MaineGeneral in Augusta had no patients all week, while Central Maine Medical Center, Maine Med and Mercy saw upticks.
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With Maine tourism season here, growing number of out-of-state visitors are testing positive
Figures updated by the Maine CDC hours after the Press Herald reported that only outdated numbers were available show a near quadrupling in the pace of new cases in the last 11 days of June.
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Number of COVID-19 patients in Maine hospitals remains low
Maine Medical Center in Portland had fewer coronavirus patients this past week than at any time since the early days of the pandemic.
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Widely cited health institute keeps missing the mark on Maine death projections
The wildly different estimates by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington spotlight the potential peril of relying on one model to predict how the coronavirus will spread.
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Pandemic takes staggering financial toll on Maine hospitals
They have lost $250 million a month since the pandemic hit the state. The federal bailout has covered about a month’s losses.