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COVID-19 hospitalizations rise once again in Maine

Hospital staff roll a COVID patient into the intensive care unit at the Medical University of South Carolina after being intubated in the emergency room. The patient's wife was also hospitalized with COVID.
Alan Hawes/Medical University of South Carolina
Hospital staff roll a COVID patient into the intensive care unit at the Medical University of South Carolina after being intubated in the emergency room. The patient's wife was also hospitalized with COVID.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise once again in Maine.

The number of patients hospitalized with the disease fell to 352 on Saturday.

But those numbers have jumped in recent days, with the Maine CDC reporting 382 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 today.

The number of patients in critical care in Maine also increased to 82. 38 patients are on ventilators.