The number of Marylanders hospitalized due to coronavirus has decreased for 14 consecutive days, and the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units has declined for eight consecutive days, state data show.
Meanwhile the statewide average rate of positive tests rose slightly on Wednesday, after decreasing for 13 straight days.
At least 59,465 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 325,177 have tested negative as of Wednesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland has conducted at least 451,967 COVID-19 tests to date, with 8,489 of those test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the past seven days, an average of 7.24 percent of tests have come back positive, up slightly from 7.15 percent on Tuesday.
Before that, the average rate of positive tests had declined for 13 consecutive days since reaching 12.84 percent on May 26. The metric had been following a downward trend since peaking at 26.92 percent on April 17.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 9,755 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 955 who are currently hospitalized.
Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have decreased for 14 consecutive days since reaching 1,338 on May 27, and have trended downward for about a month.
Of those currently hospitalized, 576 are in acute care and 379 are in intensive care.
The number COVID-19 patients in Maryland’s intensive care units has decreased for eight consecutive days since reaching 481 on June 2, and has followed a downward trend for just less than a month.
A total of 2,719 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 33 additional deaths since Tuesday. There are also 125 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 16,753 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 13,124 in Montgomery County; 6,916 in Baltimore County; 6,428 in Baltimore City; 4,348 in Anne Arundel County; 2,220 in Howard County; 2,178 in Frederick County; 1,231 in Charles County; 992 in Wicomico County; 982 in Harford County; 969 in Carroll County; 565 in St. Mary’s County; 551 in Washington County; 423 in Cecil County; 363 in Calvert County; 276 in Caroline County; 242 in Worcester County; 189 in Kent County; 185 in Allegany County; 178 in Queen Anne’s County; 157 in Dorchester County; 108 in Talbot County; 77 in Somerset County; and 10 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 1,573 have been people age 9 or younger; 2,791 have been people ages 10-19; 8,408 have been people ages 20-29; 11,089 have been people ages 30-39; 10,698 have been people ages 40-49; 9,522 have been people ages 50-59; 6,879 have been people ages 60-69; 4,389 have been people ages 70-79; and 4,116 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 30,963 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 28,502 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 17,214 have been black, 16,006 have been Hispanic, 11,718 have been white, 1,140 have been Asian, 3,085 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 10,302.
Nationwide, there have been at least 1,979,893 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 112,006 deaths and 524,855 recoveries. More than 21 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.
