Roughly two-thirds of the COVID patients in hospitals across the state are unvaccinated, and the percentage is as high as 85 to 90 among those in critical care.
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National Guard members deployed as COVID surge keeps pressure on Maine hospitals
Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston asks for help as a federal surge response team gets to work assisting the staff at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
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Federal ‘surge team’ coming to help Maine Medical Center with flood of COVID-19 patients
Pressure on Maine hospitals continued to rise Thursday as Maine reported a record number of new infections and intensive care patients.
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CMMC asks for federal assistance as COVID-19 continues to slam central and western Maine
Gov. Janet Mills said Wednesday that she requested teams of emergency medical personnel under a federal program on behalf of Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and Maine Medical Center in Portland.
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Vaccinating students seen as key moment as central Maine schools juggle pandemic challenges
With the increase in COVID-19 cases despite using the same guidelines as last year, school districts are seeing large increases in the number of positive cases from just the first few months of school.
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Maine CDC reports 876 new COVID-19 cases, four more deaths
The state has more than 300 virus patients hospitalized for the 11th consecutive day.
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Maine doesn’t count at-home COVID tests in official case counts. But that’s OK, the agency says.
The public health benefit at-home rapid tests provide for Mainers outweighs any potential undercounting of cases, a spokesperson for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
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Pace of new COVID infections continues post-Thanksgiving rise
The delta variant continues to drive a surge in infections in Maine as the new omicron variant is being detected elsewhere in the country.
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Maine health officials monitor new variant as delta drives record COVID-19 hospitalizations
Health officials are still waiting to see what effect the holiday weekend will have on transmission, but they expect cases to surge again.
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Infections, deaths and hospitalizations mount as Maine braces for post-holiday rise in COVID-19
Maine set a new hospitalization record as health officials gear up for the possible arrival of a new variant, omicron, that has the world on edge.