Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have decreased for 20 consecutive days, and the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units has declined for two straight weeks, state data show.
At least 62,409 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 366,816 have tested negative as of Tuesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 10,262 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including the 742 who are currently hospitalized.
Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have decreased for 20 consecutive days since reaching 1,338 on May 27, and the metric has trended downward for more than a month.
Of those currently hospitalized, 458 are in acute care and 284 are in intensive care.
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units has decreased for 14 consecutive days since reaching 481 on June 2, and the metric has been following a downward trend for one month.
Maryland has conducted at least 511,288 coronavirus tests to date, with 10,497 of those test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the past seven days, an average of 6.2 percent of tests in Maryland came back positive for COVID-19. Public health experts recommend a positive test rate of 10 percent or lower.
For the first time on Monday every jurisdiction in Maryland saw the rate of positive COVID-19 tests drop below 10 percent. Since then, Prince George’s County’s rate of positive tests has risen to 10.09 percent. All other jurisdictions remain below the 10 percent benchmark.
Maryland confirmed 377 additional coronavirus cases on Tuesday, an increase of about 0.61 percent.
The 14-day average number of newly reported cases has decreased for 10 straight days after reaching an average of 882 on June 5, according to the Baltimore Sun‘s data tracker.
A total of 2,851 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 34 additional deaths since Monday. There are also 131 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 17,499 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 13,709 in Montgomery County; 7,248 in Baltimore County; 6,782 in Baltimore City; 4,751 in Anne Arundel County; 2,327 in Howard County; 2,308 in Frederick County; 1,277 in Charles County; 1,031 in Wicomico County; 1,023 in Harford County; 987 in Carroll County; 585 in St. Mary’s County; 579 in Washington County; 450 in Cecil County; 380 in Calvert County; 284 in Caroline County; 258 in Worcester County; 193 in Kent; 188 in Allegany County; 183 in Queen Anne’s County; 166 in Dorchester County; 109 in Talbot County; 82 in Somerset County; and 10 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 1,773 have been people age 9 or younger; 3,036 have been people ages 10-19; 8,930 have been people ages 20-29; 11,655 have been people ages 30-39; 11,183 have been people ages 40-49; 9,894 have been people ages 50-59; 7,125 have been people ages 60-69; 4,546 have been people ages 70-79; and 4,267 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 32,415 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 29,994 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 17,867 have been Black, 16,921 have been Hispanic, 12,139 have been white, 1,214 have been Asian, 3,155 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 11,113.
Nationwide, there have been at least 2,114,180 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 116,130 deaths and 576,334 recoveries. More than 23.9 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
