Maryland’s current number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has increased for four consecutive days, reaching 805 on Tuesday.
After the state’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations dipped below 800 last week, from 801 on March 10 to 788 on March 11, the metric rose back above the 800-mark on Tuesday.
Of the Marylanders who are currently hospitalized, 592 are in acute care and 213 are in intensive care.
Hospitalizations are up by 28 patients compared to Monday, with 16 more COVID-19 patients in acute care and 12 more in intensive care.
During the pandemic, the state has hospitalized a total of 36,308 people due to coronavirus.
At least 394,716 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 3,085,354 have tested negative as of Tuesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload grew by 658, an increase of about 0.17%.
State officials on Tuesday reported 23 more coronavirus-related deaths, brining Maryland’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 fatalities to 7,896. There are also 184 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Maryland has completed 8,336,837 coronavirus tests to date, with 12,200 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the last seven days, an average of 3.96% of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 4.16% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 3.84% for Marylanders older than 35.
Of the two-dose vaccines, Maryland has administered a total of 1,235,750 first doses and 658,507 second doses.
In the past 24 hours, providers have administered 29,672 first doses and 10,748 second doses.
Maryland providers have also administered single-dose vaccines to a total of 51,542 people, including 1,501 doses that were administered in the past 24 hours.
A total of 710,049 Marylanders have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state data showed on Tuesday.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 75,541 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 64,934 in Montgomery County; 52,936 in Baltimore County; 41,906 in Baltimore City; 37,074 in Anne Arundel County; 17,524 in Frederick County; 16,544 in Howard County; 13,075 in Harford County; 12,698 in Washington County; 9,296 in Charles County; 7,849 in Carroll County; 6,924 in Wicomico County; 6,443 in Allegany County; 5,277 in St. Mary’s County; 5,132 in Cecil County; 3,767 in Calvert County; 3,304 in Worcester County; 2,629 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,430 in Somerset County; 2,404 in Dorchester County; 2,070 in Caroline County; 1,921 in Talbot County; 1,874 in Garrett County; and 1,164 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 19,938 cases in people age 9 or younger; 38,326 in people ages 10-19; 71,853 in people ages 20-29; 67,679 in people ages 30-39; 59,645 in people ages 40-49; 59,471 in people ages 50-59; 40,191 in people ages 60-69; 22,714 in people ages 70-79; and 14,899 in people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 206,296 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 188,420 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 114,738 are Black, 63,054 are Hispanic, 137,646 are white, 9,193 are Asian, 18,676 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 51,409.
Nationwide, there have been at least 29,497,420 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 535,698 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 374.4 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.
