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While COVID-19 transmission rates in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties remained below the threshold at which masks are recommended for all people, all but one neighboring county recorded substantial levels of community spread Wednesday.
State health officials reported four new cases of COVID-19 in Androscoggin County on Wednesday and three each in Franklin and Oxford counties. A total of 126 new cases were reported across the state and there were no additional deaths.
Cumberland, Kennebec, Somerset and York counties all had substantial rates of community transmission. Sagadahoc County was the only neighboring county that had a low transmission rate.
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Central, western Maine counties surrounded by areas of high COVID-19 transmission
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Vaccines are still our best shot at beating COVID-19, public health experts say
Confusing recommendations from the state and data from the CDC showing inconsistency with breakthrough cases are adding to the distrust in the vaccines efficacy.
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If there’s one thing to take away from the barrage of new information on the delta variant and new masking recommendations, it’s this: public health experts say vaccines are Maine’s best tool in the fight against COVID-19.
But getting some people fully on board isn’t as direct.
“I think that’s what people are very hesitant to do right now, is trust,” Joanne Kenny-Lynch, system director of infection prevention at Central Maine Healthcare, said Tuesday.
COVID case rates in central, western Maine continue to rise, but remain below masking recommendation threshold
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Even as cases continue to trend upward in central and western Maine, the tri-county area has thus far avoided triggering the state’s new masking recommendations that say that all people, regardless of vaccination status, wear a mask indoors.
State health officials Saturday reported 91 new cases of COVID-19 in Maine, including three in Androscoggin County, one in Franklin County and four in Oxford County.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention no longer updates case data on Sundays and Mondays.
There was one additional death, a man in his 50s from Waldo County.