Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations increased by 19 patients on Monday, but the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units stayed the same as Sunday, state data show.
Of the 377 Marylanders who are currently hospitalized due to coronavirus, 270 are in acute care and 107 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients rose by 19 while the number of intensive care patients held steady, marking a net increase of 19 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Sunday.
Since the pandemic began, Maryland has hospitalized a total of 14,303 people with COVID-19.
The number of current hospitalizations in Maryland has fluctuated but has generally been following a downward trend since reaching 592 on Aug. 1.
Before that, COVID-19 hospitalizations had been climbing after falling to a low of 385 on July 10.
At least 108,249 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 1,222,604 have tested negative as of Monday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
The state’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by 458, an increase of 0.4 percent.
Maryland has completed 1,938,846 coronavirus tests to date, with 19,331 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
An average of 3.26 percent of the state’s tests over the last seven days came back positive for COVID-19.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 3.81 percent for Marylanders younger than 35 and 2.9 percent for Marylanders older than 35.
The state reported three additional deaths due to COVID-19, bringing the total number of fatal cases in Maryland to 3,612. There are also 143 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 26,215 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 20,006 in Montgomery County; 15,479 in Baltimore County; 14,478 in Baltimore City; 8,351 in Anne Arundel County; 4,381 in Howard County; 3,492 in Frederick County; 2,475 in Harford County; 2,394 in Charles County; 1,694 in Carroll County; 1,565 in Wicomico County; 1,312 in Washington County; 1,112 in St. Mary’s County; 808 in Worcester County; 788 in Calvert County; 788 in Cecil County; 553 in Queen Anne’s County; 510 in Caroline County; 473 in Talbot County; 461 in Dorchester County; 393 Allegany County; 263 in Kent County; 195 in Somerset County; and 63 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 3,952 have been people age 9 or younger; 7,741 have been people ages 10-19; 19,556 have been people ages 20-29; 20,158 have been people ages 30-39; 17,894 have been people ages 40-49; 16,003 have been people ages 50-59; 10,846 have been people ages 60-69; 6,585 have been people ages 70-79; and 5,514 have been people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 57,237 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 51,012 as male.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 34,611 have been Black, 25,918 have been Hispanic, 24,667 have been white, 2,022 have been Asian, 4,738 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 16,293.
Nationwide, there have been at least 5,997,861 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 183,068 deaths and 2,153,939 recoveries. More than 77.5 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Monday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
