Thread by @nirav_mainecdc

1/Good morning-here is a snapshot of #COVID19 in #Maine right now. @MEPublicHealth is reporting 3757 total cases (+20). Of those, 3357 are confirmed (+23) and 400 are probable (-3).

118 individuals have passed away with #COVID19 (=) and 3259 have recovered (+20).

2/Of the #COVID19 cases in #Maine, 865 are health care workers.

Right now, 12 individuals are in the hospital; 9 in the ICU and 3 on ventilators.

3/Based on 2944 PCR-based #COVID19 tests reported, the one-day point #positivity rate in #Maine was 0.88%.

That brings our our 7-day weighted PCR positivity rate back under 1%, to 0.97%.

4/#COVID19 testing volume is 182.2/100K people, based on a 7-day moving average of PCR tests. That represents 72% growth over the past 30 days in #Maine.

5/For national context on the #COVID19 #testing numbers in #Maine, @nytimes maintains and updates this tracker, which is based on a methodology developed by public health researchers: nytimes.com/interactive/20…