Q&A: What's driving the latest case spikes and how concerned should I be?
Read Article Daily cases of COVID-19 are headed back upward, both in Maine and across the country. The seven-day average in Maine has nearly tripled, rising from 20 to 58, in the span of two weeks. And while current averages are still well below the late-spring figures – and a fraction of the worst of the pandemic at the start of the year – they are headed in the wrong direction. Maine has been faring better than most states due, in part, to a 60 percent vaccination rate that is higher than in all but a handful of other states. Nationally, the seven-day average of new cases jumped 53 per...