The number of Mainers hospitalized with COVID has jumped by two today, to 209. That's up 50 percent from two weeks ago. Twenty-eight patients are in critical care and two are on ventilators.
The state CDC is reporting three additional deaths of people with the disease, and 748 new cases.
The seven-day rolling average of new infections has more than doubled in the last month, to 651. That doesn’t include any cases detected through at-home tests.
