This week, I activated another 169 members of the Maine National Guard to help alleviate short-term capacity constraints at Maine’s hospitals and to maintain access to inpatient health care for Maine people amid record-high COVID-19 hospitalizations.
This is Governor Janet Mills and thank you for listening.
“The best way to thank our health care workers – the best way to help relieve the burden on their shoulders – is to heed their advice: get vaccinated,” said Governor Mills
Portland, MAINE – Governor Janet Mills today toured the Emergency Department (ED) and a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Maine Medical Center in Portland where she spoke with and thanked hospital staff for their tireless efforts to save the lives of Maine people during the pandemic.
This last month has seen a sustained surge of COVID-19 in Maine, driven by the Delta variant still, and made much worse by the number of people still not vaccinated.
With more people gathering indoors this holiday season in crowded places, risking more illness and hospitalizations, our health care system is just about at full capacity.
This is very similar to what’s happening in our neighboring states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont as well.
Maine and 40 other states have now reported cases of the Omicron variant. New Hampshire first confirmed its first case of the omicron variant on Dec. 13.
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced Friday evening the COVID-19 Omicron variant has been identified for the first time in Maine. The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor conducted genomic sequencing that...
Governor Janet Mills today marked the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 vaccination in Maine by thanking Maine people for helping to make the state one of the most vaccinated places in the country.
As the science around the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus unfolds, Maine CDC director urged Mainers to not forget about the variant already in front of them.