Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have decreased for 12 consecutive days, reaching the lowest point in nearly two months.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 9,629 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 979 who are currently hospitalized. The last time COVID-19 hospitalizations were lower was 918 hospitalizations on April 10.
Of those currently hospitalized, 587 are in acute care and 392 are in intensive care.
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care has decreased for sixth consecutive days and has been trending downward for about three weeks.
At least 58,404 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 313,099 have tested negative as of Monday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
A total of 2,653 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 28 additional deaths since Sunday. There are also 123 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Maryland has conducted at least 435,363 coronavirus tests to date, including 8,208 that were reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the past seven days, an average of 7.38 percent of the state’s tests have come back positive.
Since peaking 26.92 percent on April 17, the statewide rate of positive tests has trended downward, and it has decreased for 12 consecutive days since reaching 12.84 percent on May 26.
Public health experts recommend a positive test rate of 10 percent or lower.
All jurisdictions in Maryland except for Kent, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties have positive test rates below that 10 percent guideline.
Maryland’s average positivity rate has decreased as the state has increased the number of tests it is capable of conducting.
The state completed an average of 11,202 tests per day last week, compared to an average of 3,046 tests per day during the week the average rate of positive tests peaked.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 16,523 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 12,818 in Montgomery County; 6,814 in Baltimore County; 6,296 in Baltimore City; 4,267 in Anne Arundel County; 2,156 in Howard County; 2,135 in Frederick County; 1,211 in Charles County; 984 in Wicomico County; 961 in Harford County; 954 in Carroll County; 553 in St. Mary’s County; 551 in Washington County; 408 in Cecil County; 362 in Calvert County; 272 in Caroline County; 239 in Worcester County; 187 in Kent County; 185 in Allegany County; 177 in Queen Anne’s County; 156 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, 1,521 have been people age 9 or younger; 2,723 have been people ages 10-19; 8,216 have been people ages 20-29; 10,901 have been people ages 30-39; 10,500 have been people ages 40-49; 9,365 have been people ages 50-59; 6,782 have been people ages 60-69; 4,323 have been people ages 70-79; and 4,073 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 30,435 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 27,969 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 16,857 have been black, 15,394 have been Hispanic, 11,468 have been white, 1,106 have been Asian, 2,922 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 10,657.
Nationwide, there have been at least 1,942,363 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 110,514 deaths and 506,367 recoveries. More than 20.2 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Monday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
