A total of 173,534 Marylanders have been vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which the state health department on Tuesday directed providers to pause using while federal officials investigate six reported U.S. cases of a rare and severe blood clot in individuals who received that vaccine.
Those six individuals comprise a small percentage of the more than 6.8 million people nationwide who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Nevertheless, the Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday recommended that providers pause their use of the vaccine “out of an abundance of caution” while federal officials investigate the cases.
The six cases occurred in women ages 18 to 48, who developed symptoms related to a blood clot within six to 13 days after being vaccinated, the CDC reported.
Maryland officials on Wednesday reported that providers in the state had administered 8,672 more doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine since Tuesday morning.
Of the two-dose Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, Maryland has administered a total of 2,105,757 first doses and 1,251,727 second doses.
In the past 24 hours, providers have administered 21,606 first doses and 25,266 second doses.
A total of 1,425,261 Marylanders have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
At least 430,351 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 3,246,648 have tested negative as of Wednesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload climbed by 1,552, an increase of 0.36%.
A total of 8,307 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with nine additional deaths reported since Tuesday. There are also 186 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
The state has completed 9,186,171 coronavirus tests to date, with 29,641 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
On average, 5.69% 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 6.28% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 5.2% for Marylanders older than 35.
Maryland’s current hospitalizations on Wednesday dipped slightly with seven fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Tuesday.
Of the 1,236 Marylanders currently hospitalized due to COVID-19, 953 are in acute care and 283 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients declined by 15 while the number of intensive care patients rose by eight.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 39,587 COVID-19 patients to date.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 80,598 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 68,377 in Montgomery County; 59,751 in Baltimore County; 48,045 in Baltimore City; 40,740 in Anne Arundel County; 18,903 in Frederick County; 18,156 in Howard County; 15,225 in Harford County; 13,732 in Washington County; 10,150 in Charles County; 8,725 in Carroll County; 7,248 in Wicomico County; 6,652 in Allegany County; 5,669 in Cecil County; 5,612 in St. Mary’s County; 4,016 in Calvert County; 3,475 in Worcester County; 2,805 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,566 in Dorchester County; 2,506 in Somerset County; 2,191 in Caroline County; 2,018 in Talbot County; 1,926 in Garrett County; and 1,265 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 22,833 are people age 9 or younger; 43,006 are people ages 10-19; 78,970 are people ages 20-29; 73,714 are people ages 30-39; 64,568 are people ages 40-49; 64,579 are people ages 50-59; 43,270 are people ages 60-69; 23,997 are people ages 70-79; and 15,414 are people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 224,841 of the confirmed coronavirus patients as female and 205,510 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 129,287 are Black, 10,362 are Asian, 151,286 are white, 66,422 are Hispanic, 20,071 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 52,923.
Nationwide, there have been at least 31,347,697 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 563,475 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 410.4 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.
