Coronavirus-related hospitalizations in Maryland decreased for the second day in a row on Thursday but the metric remains above 1,700, with the 10th highest daily total of the pandemic.
There are currently 1,702 Marylanders hospitalized due to COVID-19, including 1,308 in acute care and 394 in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients fell by 55 while the number of intensive care patients declined by five, marking a net decrease of 60 fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Wednesday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 24,136 coronavirus patients since the beginning of the pandemic.
Gov. Larry Hogan will provide a coronavirus update today at 5 p.m.
At least 243,984 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,374,542 have tested negative as of Thursday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload rose by 2,217, an increase of about 0.92%.
The state has completed 5,131,430 coronavirus tests to date, with 37,014 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the last seven days, an average of 7.49% of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 8.48% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.3% for Marylanders older than 35.
Another 49 Marylanders are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, raising the state’s total number of coronavirus-related fatalities to 5,152. There are also 167 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, there have been 48,718 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 40,500 in Montgomery County; 34,702 in Baltimore County; 28,586 in Baltimore City; 20,730 in Anne Arundel County; 9,855 in Howard County; 9,081 in Frederick County; 7,442 in Harford County; 6,213 in Washington County; 5,289 in Charles County; 4,848 in Allegany County; 4,310 in Carroll County; 4,018 in Wicomico County; 2,948 in Cecil County; 2,789 in St. Mary’s County; 1,924 in Calvert County; 1,772 in Worcester County; 1,504 in Somerset County; 1,378 in Queen Anne’s County; 1,227 in Garrett County; 1,187 in Caroline County; 1,182 in Dorchester County; 975 in Talbot County; and 589 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 10,755 cases in people age 9 or younger; 21,965 in people ages 10-19; 45,709 in people ages 20-29; 43,197 in people ages 30-39; 37,983 in people ages 40-49; 36,329 in people ages 50-59; 24,180 in people ages 60-69; 13,995 in people ages 70-79; and 9,871 in people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 128,325 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 115,659 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 71,786 are Black, 43,865 are Hispanic, 76,865 are white, 4,942 are Asian, 11,186 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 35,340.
Nationwide, there have been at least 16,985,170 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 307,552 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 222.6 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Thursday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
