Knox County saw 10 additional COVID-19 cases during the past day, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday, March 16.
There have been no additional hospitalizations reported in the past seven days in Knox County. The CDC, however, added one additional death of a Knox County resident from the virus on March 16. This was part of 20 additional deaths reported statewide on March 16. Often when there is a spike in deaths it is the result of the state reviewing death certificates from the past several weeks and not necessarily a death in the previous day.
The Maine CDC says deaths and hospitalizations are a better metric to use than case numbers.
Since the pandemic began in Maine in March 2020, 5,796 Knox County residents have been diagnosed with the virus, 80 have been admitted to hospitals, and 32 have died.
Statewide, an additional 306 cases were reported during the past day. Twenty additional deaths were reported statewide March 16, increasing that number to 2,167.
There were 17 additional people statewide admitted to hospitals in Maine with COVID-19 since Saturday, increasing that number at 4,471 since the pandemic began in March 2020.
The CDC reports 116 Mainers currently in the hospital, down from a record high of 436 in early January. Of the 116 hospitalized, 25 are in critical care units and seven on ventilators. Eighty-four critical care beds are available in Maine.
Seventy percent of hospitalized patients are people who have not been vaccinated, and 90 percent of people in critical care units are unvaccinated.
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