The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 280 cases of coronavirus and an additional death, closing a week during which public health officials once again extended the vaccination schedule, opening eligibility for all adults in just a few days. .
On Wednesday, all residents aged 16 and over will be able to have an injection, thanks to the increasing number of doses arriving in the state. This happened after the authorities had already postponed that date to April 19.
Meanwhile, the number of cases has started to increase, fueled in part by increased spread among people under 30.
Maine’s cumulative COVID-19 cases rose to 51,468 on Saturday. Of these, 39,345 were confirmed by tests and 12,123 are considered probable cases of COVID-19. The seven-day average of new daily cases was 259.1 on Saturday, significantly higher than the 194.4 on last Saturday.
Seven hundred and forty-five people have died of COVID-19 since the Maine pandemic began. The person reported on Saturday as having died was a Somerset County man in his 70s, the Maine CDC said.
Governor Janet Mills said on Thursday that she decided to postpone the eligibility window because the supply of vaccine doses from Maine is expected to increase dramatically in the coming weeks. In addition, the demand for nominations has started to decline in some areas where people 50 and older are eligible, prompting authorities to look for more weapons to fire.
Mills and health officials said that Maine would depend not only on large mass vaccination sites in cities, but also on pop-up sites in rural areas. These pop-up sites are more likely to use the Johnson & Johnson single injection vaccine, because it is more difficult to schedule a second visit when people are so spread out.
Meanwhile, Maine is seeing a resurgence of cases. Friday brought 402 new reported cases of COVID-19, although many were older cases that the Maine CDC recently identified as the coronavirus. Health officials are raising concerns that the increase in case reports will hamper their efforts to vaccinate the population.
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, noted the increase in the state’s positive test rate – 3.5 percent on Friday against a 1.8 percent drop in the past two weeks – and asked Mainers to vaccinate.
“Broader eligibility will arrive next week,” Shah said in a tweet. “Please give your chance. We talked a lot about the light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are our vehicle to get out of this tunnel. “
2 / At the same time, #COVID-19 the cases are increasing and, with that, the positivity indexes.
Wider eligibility will arrive next week. Please give your chance.
We talked a lot about the light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are our vehicle to get out of this tunnel. pic.twitter.com/duIY16loLa
– Nirav D. Shah (@nirav_mainecdc) April 2, 2021
On Saturday, 452,346 Mainers received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 299,378 received the final dose. Out of the Maine population of 1.3 million, 33.65 percent received their first dose, according to Maine CDC statistics.
County by county until Saturday, there were 5,417 cases of coronavirus in Androscoggin, 1,427 in Aroostook, 14,147 in Cumberland, 1,000 in Franklin, 1,078 in Hancock, 4,397 in Kennebec, 819 in Knox, 675 in Lincoln, 2,602 in Oxford, 4,707 in Penobscot, 388 in Piscataquis, 998 in Sagadahoc, 1,426 in Somerset, 721 in Waldo, 777 in Washington and 10,889 in York.
By age, 16.5% of patients were under 20 years old, while 18.2% were 20 years old, 14.4% were 30 years old, 13.2% were 40 years old, 15.2% were 50 years old, 11, 4% were 60 years old, 6.1% were in their 70s, and 5% were 80 years old or more.
Of the 73 patients with COVID-19 in Maine hospitals on Saturday, 28 were in intensive care and eight were on ventilators. The state had 97 beds of intensive care units available out of a total of 379, and 240 ventilators available from 319. There were also 446 alternative ventilators.
Worldwide late Saturday afternoon, there were more than 130.5 million known cases of COVID-19 and 2.84 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States had 30.6 million cases and 554,717 deaths.
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