The number of newly confirmed cases has decreased for four consecutive days, state data show.
Starting on May 28 with 1,286 newly confirmed cases, the state reported 1,279 new cases on May 29, 1,027 on May 30, 763 on May 31 and 549 today, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
At least 53,327 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 255,403 have tested negative as of Monday morning.
The number of Marylanders hospitalized for coronavirus has reached its lowest point in more than a month after decreasing for five consecutive days, state data show.
Coronavirus-related hospitalizations maintained a downward trend for the majority of May before rising last week. But starting on May 27 with 1,338 hospitalizations, that metric declined to 1,174 today.
The last time coronavirus-related hospitalizations were lower than today was April 15 when there were 1,156 Marylanders hospitalized due to COVID-19.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 8,886 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including the 1,174 who are currently hospitalized.
Of those currently hospitalized, 695 are in acute care and 479 are in intensive care.
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units has decreased a five-day period, going from 520 COVID-19 on May 26 to 479 on May 31. It remained at 479 today.
The last time there were fewer COVID-19 patients in intensive care units than there are today was on April 17 with 439 patients.
Maryland has conducted at least 357,545 tests to date, with 8,772 of those test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Of the state’s total completed tests, about 10.8 percent have come back positive.
Gov. Larry Hogan last week said state officials are monitoring the state’s seven-day rolling positivity rate, in addition to coronavirus-related hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions that they were already examining to reopen parts of the state.
Public health experts recommend a positive test rate of 10 percent or lower. If a higher percentage of tests is comes back positive, more tests need to be conducted to capture the full spread of the disease.
So far, 18 jurisdictions have seven-day average positivity rates below public health experts’ 10 percent recommendation: Allegany, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Queen Anne’s, Somerset, St. Mary’s, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico and Worcester counties.
The other six jurisdictions–Anne Arundel, Cecil, Kent, Montgomery, and Prince George’s counties and Baltimore City–remain at or above that mark.
A total of 2,431 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 20 additional deaths since Sunday. There are also 121 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 15,353 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 11,476 in Montgomery County; 6,299 in Baltimore County; 5,604 in Baltimore City; 3,842 in Anne Arundel County; 1,944 in Howard County; 1,928 in Frederick County; 1,120 in Charles County; 955 in Wicomico County; 914 in Carroll County; 881 in Harford County; 505 in St. Mary’s County; 472 in Washington County; 369 in Cecil County; 349 in Calvert County; 260 in Caroline County; 215 in Worcester County; 180 in Allegany County; 174 in Kent County; 161 in Queen Anne’s County; 142 in Dorchester County; 101 in Talbot County; 73 in Somerset County; and 10 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 1,294 have been people age 9 or younger; 2,351 have been people ages 10-19; 7,397 have been people ages 20-29; 9,938 have been people ages 30-39; 9,598 have been people ages 40-49; 8,671 have been people ages 50-59; 6,261 have been people ages 60-69; 4,014 have been people ages 70-79; and 3,803 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 27,805 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 25,522 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 15,527 have been black, 13,753 have been Hispanic, 10,529 have been white, 1,016 have been Asian, 2,699 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 9,803.
Nationwide, there have been at least 1,791,163 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 104,399 deaths and 444,758 recoveries. More than 16.9 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.
