13 coronavirus cases reported across the state
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By Lynne Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff
Health officials on Monday reported 13 more coronavirus cases across the state.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 823. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. That’s down from 852 on Monday.
No new deaths were reported, leaving the statewide death toll at 845.
Monday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 68,603, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 68,590 on Saturday.
Of those, 50,173 have been confirmed positive, while 18,430 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
The new case rate statewide Monday was 0.37 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 512.48.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is TK, down from 51.9 a day ago, down from 73.4 a week ago and down from 253.6 a month ago. That average peaked on Jan. 14 at 625.3.
The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases and deaths have been recorded in women than men.
So far, 2,048 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Thirty-nine of those are currently hospitalized with 23 in critical care and 12 on a ventilator. Currently, 88 out of 372 critical care beds and 240 out of 319 ventilators are available. Meanwhile, 452 alternative ventilators are available.
The total statewide hospitalization rate on Monday was 15.30 patients per 10,000 residents.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (8,360), Aroostook (1,885), Cumberland (17,198), Franklin (1,367), Hancock (1,370), Kennebec (6,562), Knox (1,143), Lincoln (1,076), Oxford (3,624), Penobscot (6,285), Piscataquis (574), Sagadahoc (1,472), Somerset (2,260), Waldo (1,046), Washington (930) and York (13,435) counties. Information about an additional three cases was not immediately available.
As of Monday, 731,802 Mainers have received a first dose of the vaccine, while 746,673 have received a final dose.
As of Monday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 33,462,035 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as caused 599,769 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.