The number of Marylanders currently hospitalized due to coronavirus reached a pandemic high of 1,715 patients on Wednesday.
The state’s previous highest number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations was 1,711 on April 30.
Of those currently hospitalized, 1,299 are in acute care and 416 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients climbed by 42 while the number of intensive care patients rose by 20, marking a net increase of 62 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Tuesday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 22,622 people with COVID-19 to date.
At least 222,653 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,267,585 have tested negative as of Wednesday 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 2,692, an increase of 1.22%.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott on Wednesday announced that restaurants will be prohibited from holding indoor and outdoor dining starting at 5 p.m. on Friday in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday said coronavirus vaccine doses could begin arriving in Maryland next week, with the first shots going to hospital workers and nursing home residents and staff.
Maryland has completed 4,806,845 coronavirus tests to date, with 36,013 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
An average of 7.74% of the state’s COVID-19 tests over the last seven days came back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 8.16% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.51% for Marylanders older than 35.
A total of 4,801 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 46 additional deaths reported since Tuesday. There are also 161 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 45,345 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 37,194 in Montgomery County; 32,387 in Baltimore County; 26,897 in Baltimore City; 18,914 in Anne Arundel County; 9,124 in Howard County; 8,074 in Frederick County; 6,769 in Harford County; 5,288 in Washington County; 4,886 in Charles County; 4,321 in Allegany County; 3,843 in Carroll County; 3,747 in Wicomico County; 2,598 in Cecil County; 2,539 in St. Mary’s County; 1,801 in Calvert County; 1,633 in Worcester County; 1,372 in Somerset County; 1,250 in Queen Anne’s County; 1,098 in Dorchester County; 1,090 in Caroline County; 1,058 in Garrett County; 910 in Talbot County; and 515 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 9,545 cases in people age 9 or younger; 19,923 in people ages 10-19; 42,137 in people ages 20-29; 39,477 in people ages 30-39; 34,759 in people ages 40-49; 33,064 in people ages 50-59; 21,883 in people ages 60-69; 12,752 in people ages 70-79; and 9,113 are people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 117,094 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 105,559 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 65,894 are Black, 40,932 are Hispanic, 69,171 are white, 4,449 are Asian, 10,126 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 32,081.
Nationwide, there have been at least 15,174,019 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 286,338 deaths and 5,786,915 recoveries. The U.S. has conducted more than 207.5 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. __, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
