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AUGUSTA, Maine – A record 74 COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units across Maine on Thursday as virus cases continue to rise across the state, testing hospital resources.
Thirty-eight patients also needed ventilators, surpassing the record set in mid-January, while all COVID-19 hospitals rose to 193, the highest single-day total since the winter.
As of Thursday, 43 intensive care units were still available statewide, said Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This is more than a few weeks ago, when only 34 beds were not filled.
The record number of critical COVID-19 patients comes as cases continued to rise in Maine, which now has the highest case rate of any New England state. Another 620 cases were reported Thursday.
The vast majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are still not vaccinated. At Northern Light Health, Maine’s second-largest hospital system, 35 of 42 hospital patients with COVID-19 had not received any doses of the vaccine as of Wednesday. All but one of the 21 intensive care patients in the hospital system were unvaccinated, as were 10 of 11 patients on ventilators.
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