COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maine continued to drop this week, and hospitals reported the fewest patients since the early days of the pandemic.
The key metric, which generally delays exposure to the disease by one to three weeks, has been declining steadily for more than a month in Maine and has been at low levels since the end of May. The welcoming trend has continued even as hospitalizations and deaths increase in the southern and southwestern United States, overwhelming intensive care units.
The Maine Medical Center, which has handled almost half of the state’s coronavirus burden for most of the crisis, had an average of 3.7 confirmed hospitalized patients with COVID-19 each day during the week ending Thursday, slightly more than 3.3 last week, but well below your highest daily census. it has 35 both on April 7 and May 25.
The Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor had the second-largest burden this week, with 3 hospitalized patients treated each day of the week, slightly more than an average of 2.7 the previous week.
Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston had the third-largest burden with just 1.5 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 per day, compared to 2.7 the previous week. The other hospital in town, St. Mary’s, had just 0.14 a day.
Portland Mercy Hospital averaged just 1.1 COVID-19 patients per day, down from 3.1 last week, while York County’s largest hospital, the Southern Maine Medical Health Center in Biddeford, She has not had such a patient since July 17 and an average of 0.14 per day for the week.
The figure for Maine General in Augusta, the hospital that has had the third-largest pandemic load to date after MaineMed and SMHC, was 0.6 patients per day, and at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick it was 1, unchanged. since last week.
York Hospital has not reported a patient hospitalized with COVID-19 since June 22.
Four smaller hospitals that reported having patients during the month of June, Bridgton, Rumford and Waldo in Belfast and Franklin Memorial in Farmington, also had none during the week.
Hospitalizations can end in three ways: recovery, death, or transfer to another facility. The data does not include outpatients or hospitalized patients suspected of having the virus but never analyzed.
The Press Herald poll is for the seven days ending July 23. Collects data received directly from hospitals and hospital networks. It includes most, but not all, state hospitals, but represents the vast majority of state hospitalizations reported each week by the Maine CDC.
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