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Via press release from Maine Gov. Janet Mills:
Governor Janet Mills announced today that she has activated additional members of the Maine National Guard to help alleviate short-term capacity constraints at hospitals and maintain access to inpatient health care services for Maine people amid a sustained surge of COVID-19.
The Governor’s decision follows discussions with Maine’s hospital systems and comes as Maine and the rest of New England experience record hospitalizations during a sustained surge of COVID-19 driven almost entirely by the Delta variant.
The vast majority of people hospitalized in Maine are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19. As of today, there are a record high 379 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Maine, including 117 in critical care and 60 on ventilators. There are currently 42 available intensive care unit (ICU) beds available in Maine.
The COVID surge in Maine is so big that the governor is activating the national guard to help with overmatched hospitals, and @nirav_mainecdc said, “There are now more positive test results coming in than we can process in a single day.” https://t.co/ZxHBYQQlCW
— Asher Klein (@kleinstar) December 8, 2021