Maryland health officials on Friday reported 990 new coronavirus cases, marking the third straight day of at least 900 daily new cases.
At least 391,480 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 990 have tested negative as of Friday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
A total of 7,848 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 16 additional deaths reported since Thursday. There are also 182 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Maryland has completed 8,236,204 coronavirus tests to date, with 39,438 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
On average, 3.61% of the state’s coronavirus tests over the last seven days came back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 3.71% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 3.53% for Marylanders older than 35.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 35,990 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 765 who are currently hospitalized.
Of those currently hospitalized, 570 are in acute care and 195 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients declined by nine while the number of intensive care patients fell by 14, marking a net decrease of 23 fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Thursday.
A total of 656,886 Marylanders have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state data showed on Friday.
Of the two-dose vaccines, Maryland has administered a total of 1,124,484 first doses and 611,861 second doses.
In the past 24 hours, providers have administered 28,243 first doses and 13,214 second doses.
Maryland providers have also administered single-dose vaccines to a total of 45,025 people, including 3,458 doses that were administered in the past 24 hours.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, there have been 74,991 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 64,514 in Montgomery County; 52,450 in Baltimore County; 41,415 in Baltimore City; 36,770 in Anne Arundel County; 17,360 in Frederick County; 16,370 in Howard County; 12,918 in Harford County; 12,613 in Washington County; 9,199 in Charles County; 7,769 in Carroll County; 6,889 in Wicomico County; 6,433 in Allegany County; 5,249 in St. Mary’s County; 5,096 in Cecil County; 3,741 in Calvert County; 3,299 in Worcester County; 2,617 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,418 in Somerset County; 2,384 in Dorchester County; 2,066 in Caroline County; 1,914 in Talbot County; 1,858 in Garrett County; and 1,147 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has identified 204,667 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 186,813 as male.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 19,670 are people age 9 or younger; 37,922 are people ages 10-19; 71,256 are people ages 20-29; 67,143 are people ages 30-39; 59,200 are people ages 40-49; 58,962 are people ages 50-59; 39,899 are people ages 60-69; 22,572 are people ages 70-79; and 14,856 are people age 80 or older.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 113,400 are Black, 62,657 are Hispanic, 136,277 are white, 9,057 are Asian, 18,515 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 51,574.
Nationwide, there have been at least 29,287,115 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 530,833 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 368.7 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Friday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
I would like to start seeing the numbers of people who have been fully vaccinated and still got COVID,,