Maine Medical Center’s numbers match the early-April peak, while Mercy Hospital sets a new high.
Colin Woodard
Colin Woodard is the Press Herald’s State and National Affairs Writer, and is often at work on large investigative projects. Born in Waterville and raised in western Maine, he was a foreign correspondent for two decades, reported from more than fifty countries on all seven continents, and witnessed the collapse of communism and its bloody aftermath in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He’s written five books, including histories of Maine (The Lobster Coast), North America’s rival regional cultures (American Nations) and the Golden Age Pirates (Republic of Pirates), which was turned into a quickly forgotten NBC mini-series starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard. Since joining the Press Herald in 2012, he’s won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He used to be an avid sailor and SCUBA diver, but with small kids at home, his hobbies now include sleeping and picking up toys.
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New cases spiking in southern Maine, raising concerns that COVID-19 is resurging
Androscoggin County’s daily trend has risen nearly 15-fold in recent weeks, while Cumberland County’s has tripled.
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Portland’s major hospitals see sharp increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations
But cases at most other hospitals across Maine remained flat over the past week.
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Maine CDC adds detailed pandemic data, promises more soon
Maine is the only state that’s not providing daily negative test data, and alone in New England in not reporting cases by town.
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Maine reopening despite missed benchmarks, inadequate testing regime
Experts say more widespread testing of people without symptoms is essential to beating the pandemic and restoring the economy.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maine stay flat for 5th week
The data don’t likely reflect any effects yet of loosened social distancing measures.
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Maine is the only state that’s not calculating positive test rate daily
The Maine CDC says the proportion of people testing positive for COVID-19 is a key metric used to monitor outbreaks and guide reopening, but it is calculating the rate only once a week.
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Neighboring New Brunswick has kept the coronavirus in check. Here’s how.
Maine’s doppelganger neighbor, which acted early and decisively, has had no deaths and no nursing home outbreaks, and is down to just 2 active cases.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maine flat for 4th week, but upticks in Portland and Bangor
Outbreaks at a meat plant, a rehab facility and a homeless shelter may account for the increases, as it’s too early to see any effects of loosened restrictions.
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Maine reopening with ‘bare minimum’ testing strategy
The state’s plan calls for a doubling or tripling of statewide testing capacity, but more robust approaches would require 20 or 30 times that.