Maine reported 249 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, three more deaths

Maine reported 249 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and three additional deaths, with the possibility of more cases continuing.

The seven-day daily average of new cases was 174.1 on Monday, compared to 205.4 a week ago and 65.7 a month ago.

Dr. Nirav Shah, Director, Maine CDC, will brief the media today at 2 p.m.

In all, there have been 11,757 Covid-19 cases in Maine, and 194 deaths.

Sherry Pierce, director of health and well-being at St. Joseph’s College, gives the student the COVID-19 exam while Jenna Chase, right, waits to go through the vial to put the swab on Thursday, November 19th. Staff photo by Brianna Souckup

As cases rise nationally, another COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Moderna, said he would apply Monday for Food and Drug Administration approval for emergency use of the vaccine, according to news reports. Pfizer was launched in early November and will appear before a panel of FDA scientists on December 10, while Moderna is expected to appear before the same panel on December 17, a week later.

If both are approved, the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine could begin around December 15, with Moderna starting December 21, company officials said.

Modern’s chief medical officer, Dr. “This was the first time I allowed myself to cry,” Tal Zacks told CNN on Monday. “We fully expect a change in the course of this epidemic.”

Both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines have an efficacy rate of about 95 percent, according to late-stage clinical trials.

Full rollouts of the vaccine are expected in 2021, with public health officials urging the country’s hospitals to keep pace with the deteriorating epidemic. Maine is performing relatively well compared to most other states, but only because epidemics are declining in Maine compared to most states. According to the Harvard Global Health Institute, Maine averaged 12.3 per 100,000 daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the third lowest in the country. Hawaii had the lowest virus spread in the country at 6.9.

Twenty-five states had at least double Maine virus prevalence rates, and Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota had rates 10 times higher than Maine or higher.

As the situation worsens, more people seek care in hospitals.

The number of patients with COVID-19 has been reported in several hospitals in Maine over the past several weeks, many of them in central and eastern Maine. On Monday, 139 people were in Maine hospitals for Civil-19, 51 in intensive care and 18 on ventilators.

The Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangalore treated an average of 22.2 COVD-19 patients per day for six days ending Wednesday – the highest Kovid-19 patient load in the state. August The Maine General Medical Center in Gusta and the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston also broke their own records for COVID-19 patients.

With a record high report from Man Health Care Medical Center in York and York Hospital in York, York County has also seen an increase in hospital admissions.

This story will be updated.

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