Maryland reported 42 additional coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday, the highest daily total of new deaths reported since June.
The last time that the state newly reported more than 40 deaths was on June 3 when the state reported 45 new deaths, according to The Baltimore Sun‘s data tracker.
A total of 4,558 Marylanders have died from coronavirus, and another 157 Marylanders are suspected to have died from the virus.
At least 203,355 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,168,003 have tested negative as of Wednesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload rose by 2,220, an increase of 1.1%.
The state has completed 4,496,011 coronavirus tests to date, with 35,566 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
An average of 7.52% of the state’s coronavirus tests over the last seven days came back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 7.99% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.24% for Marylanders older than 35.
There are currently 1,578 Marylanders hospitalized due to coronavirus, down slightly from Tuesday.
Of those currently hospitalized, 1,219 are in acute care and 359 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients declined by 14 while the number of intensive care patients rose by nine, marking a net decrease of five fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Tuesday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 21,395 people due to COVID-19 to date.
Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday said Maryland would be recruiting people, including college students studying health care, to work at state hospitals, nursing homes, testing sites and vaccination clinics through a program called MarylandMedNow.
However, Hogan stopped short of implementing any new coronavirus-related restrictions.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 42,190 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 34,159 in Montgomery County; 29,897 in Baltimore County; 25,006 in Baltimore City; 17,166 in Anne Arundel County; 8,343 in Howard County; 7,123 in Frederick County; 6,234 in Harford County; 4,502 in Charles County; 4,469 in Washington County; 3,490 in Wicomico County; 3,466 in Allegany County; 3,415 in Carroll County; 2,210 in St. Mary’s County; 2,199 in Cecil County; 1,635 in Calvert County; 1,504 in Worcester County; 1,111 in Queen Anne’s County; 1,102 in Somerset County; 1,030 in Dorchester County; 990 in Caroline County; 830 in Talbot County; 817 in Garrett County; and 467 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 8,479 are people age 9 or younger; 18,083 are people ages 10-19; 38,682 are people ages 20-29; 36,308 are people ages 30-39; 31,883 are people ages 40-49; 30,084 are people ages 50-59; 19,914 are people ages 60-69; 11,516 are people ages 70-79; and 8,406 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 106,943 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 96,412 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 60,744 are Black, 38,328 are Hispanic, 61,776 are white, 4,032 are Asian, 9,272 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 29,203.
Nationwide, there have been at least 13,730,738 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 270,728 deaths and 5,226,581 recoveries. The U.S. has conducted more than 194.1 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.
