Maryland has received 667,275 doses as of Tuesday morning, enough to provide two vaccine doses to 333,637 people — or about 5.7% of the state’s approximately 6 million residents.
A total of 396,661 coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered to Marylanders so far, state health officials reported Tuesday morning.
Maryland has administered the first dose of the vaccine to a total of 348,026 Marylanders, including 17,317 vaccinations newly reported in the past 24 hours.
Of the first dose recipients, a total of 48,635 Marylanders have also receive the second dose of the vaccine. In the past 24 hours, the state has reported 6,407 people who have newly received the second vaccine dose.
Maryland is currently in vaccination phase 1C, with all individuals included in phases 1A, 1B and 1C of the state’s vaccine distribution plan eligible to receive the vaccine.
Phase 1A includes healthcare providers; nursing home residents and staff; law enforcement officials, firefighters, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers, and other first responders; staff and officers working in correctional healthcare facilities; and front line judiciary staff.
In Phase 1B are Marylanders age 75 and older; residents of assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, group homes, and other congregate facilities; high-risk incarcerated individuals; individuals who are part of “continuity of government” plans; and K-12 teachers, support staff, and child care providers.
Phase 1C, which began on Monday, opens vaccine eligibility to Marylanders age 65-74; any public health and safety workers not covered in Phase 1A; and essential workers in lab services, food and agriculture production, manufacturing, the U.S. Postal Service, public transit and grocery stores.
The state has not yet announced when it will begin Phase 2 of vaccine distribution, but that phase will allow the vaccination of Marylanders age 16-64 at increased risk of severe COVID-19 illness due to having multiple chronic diseases or conditions; essential workers in critical utilities, transportation, logistics, infrastructure, food service and more; and incarcerated adults.
Phase 3, which also has not yet been announced, will open vaccines to healthy adults age 16-64 in the general population who are not covered by the previous phases.
Gov. Larry Hogan will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. today to provide an update about vaccine distribution.
At least 344,620 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,793,416 have tested negative as of Tuesday 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 1,482, an increase of 0.43%.
Over the last seven days, an average of 6.64% of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive. The state’s average positivity rate has been declining since reaching 8.22% on Jan. 17.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 6.72% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 6.59% for Marylanders older than 35.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 31,330 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 1,642 who are currently hospitalized.
Of those currently hospitalized, 1,275 are in acute care and 367 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients rose by one while the number of intensive care patients fell by 28, marking a net decrease of 27 fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Monday.
A total of 6,788 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 62 additional deaths reported since Monday. There are also 175 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 66,159 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 57,326 in Montgomery County; 46,027 in Baltimore County; 37,087 in Baltimore City; 31,909 in Anne Arundel County; 15,216 in Frederick County; 14,138 in Howard County; 11,102 in Washington County; 10,957 in Harford County; 7,719 in Charles County; 6,697 in Carroll County; 6,140 in Wicomico County; 6,106 in Allegany County; 4,640 in Cecil County; 4,411 in St. Mary’s County; 3,289 in Calvert County; 2,986 in Worcester County; 2,305 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,200 in Somerset County; 2,009 in Dorchester County; 1,806 in Caroline County; 1,764 in Garrett County; 1,613 in Talbot County; and 1,014 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 16,603 are people age 9 or younger; 32,319 are people ages 10-19; 62,872 are people ages 20-29; 59,778 are people ages 30-39; 52,732 are people ages 40-49; 52,043 are people ages 50-59; 35,039 are people ages 60-69; 19,898 are people ages 70-79; and 13,336 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 180,737 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 163,883 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 97,614 are Black, 56,784 are Hispanic, 117,278 are white, 7,494 are Asian, 16,112 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 49,338.
Nationwide, there have been at least 25,306,238 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 421,670 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 293.6 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
