PORTSMOUTH – As more details emerge about how the coronavirus spreads, medical professionals are concerned the mixed messages over the past couple months have had a compounding effect on the impending “surge” of COVID-19 cases projected to occur in every state in the weeks ahead.

New Hampshire and Maine are projected to hit their surge of medical resource usage due to acute COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization April 17, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The independent health research center is part of the University of Washington medical school.

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