The number of Marylanders currently hospitalized with COVID-19 dropped by 44 patients, while state officials confirmed 20 more deaths related to coronavirus.
Of the state’s current 1,235 coronavirus patients, 935 are in acute care and 300 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients fell by 44 while the number of intensive care patients remained the same, marking a net decrease of 44 fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Wednesday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 40,615 people with COVID-19 to date.
At least 439,992 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 3,292,994 have tested negative as of Thursday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload grew by 1,203, an increase of 0.27%.
A total of 8,439 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, and another 186 deaths are suspected to be related to coronavirus.
The state has completed 9,432,069 coronavirus tests to date, with 36,411 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the last seven days, an average of 5.15% of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 5.61% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 4.83% for Marylanders older than 35.
As of Thursday, Marylanders can now get a walk-up vaccination from 10 a.m. to at the Baltimore Convention Center, the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and the Greenbelt Metro Station, Gov. Larry Hogan announced on Wednesday. The Baltimore Convention Center has reserved shots for residents of Baltimore City.
The walk-up vaccination lines at these sites join the mass vaccination sites at M&T Bank Stadium and the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center, which have already been offering walk-up vaccinations.
A total of 1,728,634 Marylanders have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state data showed on Thursday.
Of the two-dose vaccines, Maryland has administered a total of 2,415,745 first doses and 1,548,388 second doses.
In the past 24 hours, providers have administered 36,043 first doses and 38,755 second doses.
Maryland providers have also administered single-dose vaccines to a total of 180,246 people, including 239 doses that were reported in the past 24 hours.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, there have been 81,864 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 69,147 in Montgomery County; 61,847 in Baltimore County; 49,767 in Baltimore City; 41,743 in Anne Arundel County; 19,215 in Frederick County; 18,556 in Howard County; 15,754 in Harford County; 13,940 in Washington County; 10,359 in Charles County; 8,929 in Carroll County; 7,353 in Wicomico County; 6,752 in Allegany County; 5,892 in Cecil County; 5,713 in St. Mary’s County; 4,091 in Calvert County; 3,522 in Worcester County; 2,863 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,634 in Dorchester County; 2,523 in Somerset County; 2,237 in Caroline County; 2,045 in Talbot County; 1,956 in Garrett County; and 1,290 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 23,784 are people age 9 or younger; 44,423 are people ages 10-19; 80,728 are people ages 20-29; 75,351 are people ages 30-39; 65,904 are people ages 40-49; 65,923 are people ages 50-59; 44,034 are people ages 60-69; 24,303 are people ages 70-79; and 15,542 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 229,943 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 210,049 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 133,597 are Black, 10,601 are Asian, 155,028 are white, 67,341 are Hispanic, 20,571 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 52,854.
Nationwide, there have been at least 31,865,342 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 569,438 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 421.2 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Thursday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
