Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations on Monday reached a record high for the fourth time in the past week.
There are currently 1,742 Marylanders hospitalized due to COVID-19, the highest number of hospitalizations during the pandemic.
The state previously recorded 1,729 coronavirus patients on Dec. 11, 1,720 on Dec. 10, and 1,715 on Dec. 9 — all higher than the previous record of 1,711 hospitalizations on April 30.
Of the Marylanders current hospitalized with coronavirus, 1,338 are in acute care and 404 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients climbed by 83 while the number of intensive care patients fell by 20, marking a net increase of 63 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Sunday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 23,558 people with COVID-19 to date.
At least 236,961 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,344,023 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 2,314, an increase of about 0.99%.
Maryland has completed 5,061,387 coronavirus tests to date, with 40,010 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
On average, 7.46% of the state’s COVID-19 tests over the last seven days have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 8.15% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.07% for Marylanders older than 35.
Maryland reported 24 more deaths related to coronavirus on Monday, bringing the state’s total number of COVID-19 fatalities to 4,978. There are also 164 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 47,682 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 39,721 in Montgomery County; 34,109 in Baltimore County; 28,270 in Baltimore City; 20,389 in Anne Arundel County; 9,711 in Howard County; 8,820 in Frederick County; 7,256 in Harford County; 5,974 in Washington County; 5,183 in Charles County; 4,629 in Allegany County; 4,197 in Carroll County; 3,960 in Wicomico County; 2,868 in Cecil County; 2,730 in St. Mary’s County; 1,893 in Calvert County; 1,727 in Worcester County; 1,429 in Somerset County; 1,365 in Queen Anne’s County; 1,175 in Dorchester County; 1,171 in Caroline County; 1,161 in Garrett County; 966 in Talbot County; and 575 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 10,390 are people age 9 or younger; 21,301 are people ages 10-19; 44,547 are people ages 20-29; 42,011 are people ages 30-39; 36,913 are people ages 40-49; 35,158 are people ages 50-59; 23,437 are people ages 60-69; 13,553 are people ages 70-79; and 9,651 are people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 124,759 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 112,202 as male.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 69,786 are Black, 42,968 are Hispanic, 74,295 are white, 4,790 are Asian, 10,853 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 34,269.
Nationwide, there have been at least 16,258,573 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 299,193 deaths and 6,298,082 recoveries. The U.S. has conducted more than 217.1 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Monday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
