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On April 3, the New York Times COVID tracker rated Androscoggin County “very high risk” for COVID exposure. The average daily case count per 100,000 people for the last 14 days is 27, the highest in Maine.
For months Androscoggin County has been in the top one or two counties for COVID cases, yet our hospitals only recently opened a “mass vaccination” site. Maine Health and Northern Light Health opened theirs several months ago, and they have a much larger capacity.
What is going on here, that our case counts are high and our institutions have not responded in a timely manner? Have our hospital administrations simply been incompetent? Have they lagged behind because they did not want to spend time or resources to vaccinate the community?