The Maine Middle for Illness Management and Prevention on Saturday reported 542 COVID-19 instances and two extra deaths, as vaccine eligibility appeared prone to broaden to younger kids within the subsequent few weeks.
Folks as younger as 12 are actually eligible for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, and states will soon start reserving smaller doses for youthful kids, with the possible approval quickly of photographs for kids between 5 and 11. That’s about 28 million kids throughout the nation, a inhabitants that’s at decrease danger for critical sickness and demise than older adults — however nonetheless some danger. In accordance with the American Academy of Pediatrics, greater than 540 kids have died from COVID-19 within the U.S.
Maine’s cumulative COVID-19 instances rose to 97,725 on Saturday. Of these, 69,647 have been confirmed by testing and 28,078 are thought of possible instances of COVID-19. Saturday’s case numbers introduced the seven-day common of recent day by day instances to 396.7, and the 14-day common to 446.9.
One thousand ninety-five folks have died with COVID-19 in Maine for the reason that pandemic started. Details about the 2 folks reported Saturday to have died wasn’t out there from the Maine CDC.
This previous week, an advisory panel with the Meals and Drug Administration also recommended booster shots of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, no less than two months after the preliminary dose. All three vaccines out there within the U.S. — Pfizer, Moderna and J&J — are efficient in opposition to COVID-19, however specialists had some concern that the J&J vaccine gave much less safety than the others, particularly in opposition to the extra virulent “delta” variant.
By Saturday morning, Maine had given 892,881 folks the ultimate dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Amongst folks 12 and older, the inhabitants at the moment eligible for vaccination, 75.4 % are actually totally vaccinated.
Maine as of Friday had recorded 6,680 “breakthrough” instances, which happen when a completely vaccinated individual contracts COVID-19. Unvaccinated folks nonetheless account for the overwhelming majority of instances, and are additionally more likely to have extra critical sickness in the event that they do catch the illness. By comparability, there have been 61,999 complete instances since COVID-19 vaccines grew to become out there to Mainers.
County by county as of Saturday, there had been 10,339 coronavirus instances in Androscoggin, 3,653 in Aroostook, 21,238 in Cumberland, 2,114 in Franklin, 2,591 in Hancock, 9,299 in Kennebec, 1,833 in Knox, 1,719 in Lincoln, 4,815 in Oxford, 11,665 in Penobscot, 1,260 in Piscataquis, 1,889 in Sagadahoc, 4,015 in Somerset, 2,275 in Waldo, 1,702 in Washington and 17,310 in York.
By age, 20.8 % of sufferers have been underneath 20, whereas 17.7 % have been of their 20s, 15.3 % have been of their 30s, 13.2 % have been of their 40s, 13.6 % have been of their 50s, 9.9 % have been of their 60s, 5.4 % have been of their 70s, and 4 % have been 80 or older.
World wide on Saturday, there have been 240.1 million recognized instances of COVID-19 and 4.89 million deaths, based on Johns Hopkins College. America had 44.9 million instances and 723,762 deaths.
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