The number of Marylanders in the hospital with COVID-19 has fallen to the lowest point since March, according to state data released today.
As of Wednesday, 398 Marylanders are hospitalized due to coronavirus, with 262 of those patients in acute care and 136 in intensive care. A total of 11,184 residents have been hospitalized for COVID-19 to date.
Maryland’s coronavirus hospitalizations have dipped below 400 for the first time since March 31, when they were at 308.
Hospitalizations have declined by more than 75 percent since peaking at 1,711 patients on April 30.
Coronavirus-related intensive care admissions have also fallen to less than one-fourth of what they were since reaching 611 patients on May 10. The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care units is at its lowest point since reaching 131 on March 31.
Maryland has confirmed 70,861 coronavirus cases to date, while 532,247 residents have tested negative, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Since the pandemic began, Maryland has completed 746,274 coronavirus tests. Included in that number are 11,932 test results that the state reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the past seven days, an average of 4.61 percent of Maryland’s tests have come back positive for COVID-19.
Maryland reported nine additional deaths caused by COVID-19 since Tuesday, bringing the statewide total of deaths from the virus to 3,149 people. There are also 126 deaths suspected to be related to the virus.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 19,285 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 15,400 in Montgomery County; 8,443 in Baltimore County; 8,071 in Baltimore City; 5,341 in Anne Arundel County; 2,723 in Howard County; 2,553 in Frederick County; 1,473 in Charles County; 1,209 in Harford County; 1,188 in Carroll County; 1,102 in Wicomico County; 694 in Washington County; 666 in St. Mary’s County; 512 in Cecil County; 425 in Calvert County; 325 in Caroline County; 306 in Worcester County; 260 in Queen Anne’s County; 212 Allegany County; 204 in Kent County; 199 in Dorchester County; 161 in Talbot County; 93 in Somerset County; and 16 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 2,179 have been people age 9 or younger; 3,786 have been people ages 10-19; 10,700 have been people ages 20-29; 13,255 have been people ages 30-39; 12,485 have been people ages 40-49; 11,031 have been people ages 50-59; 7,862 have been people ages 60-69; 4,967 have been people ages 70-79; and 4,596 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 36,763 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 34,098 as male.
Of state’s confirmed coronavirus cases, 20,288 have been Black, 18,747 have been Hispanic, 14,062 have been white, 1,353 have been Asian, 3,446 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 12,965.
Nationwide, there have been at least 2,996,679 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 131,486 deaths and 936,476 recoveries. More than 36.8 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
