After having one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the country a month ago, Maine now ranks near the bottom.
According to the Portland Press Herald, the state’s infection rate fell dramatically over the past four weeks. The state was seeing 407 new cases per 100,000 people a month ago. That’s down to 134 per 100,000 people cases over the past seven days.
Maine now ranks the sixth lowest in the nation when it comes to infection rate, below the national average of 220 cases per 100,000 people.
Other metrics, including hospitalizations, are also falling. There were 132 people in Maine’s hospitals with the virus on Thursday, and one new death.
There were also 319 new cases Thursday, down from an average of about 800 new cases a day in early May.
