Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations, intensive care admissions and average rate of positive COVID-19 tests are continuing to decline, state data show.
At least 58,904 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 319,178 have tested negative as of Tuesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 9,676 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 970 who are currently hospitalized.
The number of Marylanders who are hospitalized for COVID-19 has decreased for 13 consecutive days since reaching 1,338 on May 27, and has generally followed a downward trend for just over a month.
Of those currently hospitalized, 584 are in acute care and 386 are in intensive care.
The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care has decreased for seven consecutive days since Maryland reached 481 COVID-19 patients on June 2, and has been trending downward for about three weeks.
Maryland has conducted at least 443,478 coronavirus tests to date, with 8,115 of those test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the past seven days, an average of 7.15 percent of tests have come back positive for COVID-19.
Since peaking 26.92 percent on April 17, the statewide rate of positive tests has trended downward, and it has decreased for 13 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 and Prince George’s counties have positive test rates below that 10 percent guideline.
Montgomery County, which has consistently had some of the highest totals of coronavirus cases and deaths in Maryland, dipped below the 10 percent guideline for the first time on Tuesday.
A total of 2,686 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 33 additional deaths since Monday. There are also 125 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 16,636 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 12,968 in Montgomery County; 6,852 in Baltimore County; 6,355 in Baltimore City; 4,309 in Anne Arundel County; 2,191 in Howard County; 2,152 in Frederick County; 1,216 in Charles County; 990 in Wicomico County; 969 in Harford County; 963 in Carroll County; 561 in St. Mary’s County; 545 in Washington County; 417 in Cecil County; 363 in Calvert County; 273 in Caroline County; 241 in Worcester County; 188 in Kent County; 186 in Allegany County; 177 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, 1,541 have been people age 9 or younger; 2,750 have been people ages 10-19; 8,319 have been people ages 20-29; 10,979 have been people ages 30-39; 10,596 have been people ages 40-49; 9,438 have been people ages 50-59; 6,832 have been people ages 60-69; 4,360 have been people ages 70-79; and 4,089 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 30,667 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 28,237 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 16,966 have been black, 15,518 have been Hispanic, 11,547 have been white, 1,114 have been Asian, 2,946 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 10,813.
Nationwide, there have been at least 1,961,646 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 111,014 deaths and 518,522 recoveries. More than 20.6 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
