Maryland health officials reported fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day, after several COVID-19 testing locations were temporarily closed from Sunday to Tuesday due to the snowstorm that blanketed the state.
At least 357,483 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, with 942 cases reported on Wednesday, an increase of 0.26%.
Meanwhile, at least 2,853,838 Marylanders have tested negative for the virus, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland has completed 7,066,871 coronavirus tests to date, with 14,607 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
On average, 5.96% of the state’s coronavirus tests over the last seven days have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 5.96% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 5.97% for Marylanders older than 35.
Several vaccination sites were also temporarily closed due to the snow, but Maryland reported administering 9,429 first doses and 9,969 second doses in the past 24 hours.
The state has administered a total of 471,591 first doses and 101,540 second doses since it began vaccinating residents.
There are currently 1,485 Marylanders hospitalized due to COVID-19, including 1,124 who are in acute care and 361 who are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients rose by 23 while the number of intensive care patients declined by five, marking a net increase of 18 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Tuesday.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 32,406 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point during the pandemic.
Maryland on Wednesday reported 31 more deaths confirmed to be related to coronavirus, bringing the state’s total number of COVID-19 fatalities to 7,043. There are also 177 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 68,490 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 59,439 in Montgomery County; 47,735 in Baltimore County; 38,194 in Baltimore City; 33,194 in Anne Arundel County; 15,759 in Frederick County; 14,704 in Howard County; 11,521 in Washington County; 11,481 in Harford County; 8,126 in Charles County; 7,017 in Carroll County; 6,403 in Wicomico County; 6,218 in Allegany County; 4,784 in Cecil County; 4,636 in St. Mary’s County; 3,446 in Calvert County; 3,093 in Worcester County; 2,386 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,268 in Somerset County; 2,113 in Dorchester County; 1,904 in Caroline County; 1,800 in Garrett County; 1,716 in Talbot County; and 1,056 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of the state’s residents who have tested positive for coronavirus, 17,454 are people age 9 or younger; 33,622 are people ages 10-19; 65,016 are people ages 20-29; 61,792 are people ages 30-39; 54,609 are people ages 40-49; 53,979 are people ages 50-59; 36,432 are people ages 60-69; 20,749 are people ages 70-79; and 13,830 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 187,541 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 169,942 as male.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 101,453 are Black, 58,447 are Hispanic, 122,277 are white, 7,863 are Asian, 16,793 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 50,650.
Nationwide, there have been at least 26,439,473 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 447,077 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 307.4 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
