The average percentage of Maryland’s coronavirus tests in the past seven-day period that have come back positive continues to decline, reaching 5.08% on Thursday.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 5.08% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 5.11% for Marylanders older than 35.
At least 367,865 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,905,931 have tested negative as of Thursday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
The state’s coronavirus caseload rose by 1,199 new cases, an increase of 0.33%.
Maryland has completed 7,344,008 coronavirus tests to date, with 39,191 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Currently, 1,272 Marylanders are hospitalized due to COVID-19, including 948 in acute care and 324 in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients declined by 10 while the number of intensive care patients remained the same, marking a net decrease of 10 fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Wednesday.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Maryland has hospitalized a total of 33,508 coronavirus patients.
Maryland officials on Thursday reported 21 more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the state’s total number of coronavirus-related fatalities to 7,288. There are also 179 people whose deaths are suspected to be related to the virus.
The state has distributed the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine to a total of 587,180 Marylanders, including 16,685 who received it in the past 24 hours.
Of the Maryland recipients of the first vaccine dose, 197,990 individuals have received the second vaccine dose, including 16,449 people in the past 24 hours.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, there have been 70,465 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 61,160 in Montgomery County; 48,976 in Baltimore County; 39,131 in Baltimore City; 34,216 in Anne Arundel County; 16,249 in Frederick County; 15,126 in Howard County; 11,910 in Harford County; 11,859 in Washington County; 8,464 in Charles County; 7,272 in Carroll County; 6,578 in Wicomico County; 6,336 in Allegany County; 4,906 in Cecil County; 4,847 in St. Mary’s County; 3,552 in Calvert County; 3,169 in Worcester County; 2,466 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,323 in Somerset County; 2,202 in Dorchester County; 1,978 in Caroline County; 1,824 in Garrett County; 1,779 in Talbot County; and 1,077 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 104,731 are Black, 59,789 are Hispanic, 126,460 are white, 8,187 are Asian, 17,227 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 51,471.
The state has identified 192,840 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 175,025 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 18,124 are people age 9 or younger; 34,777 are people ages 10-19; 66,784 are people ages 20-29; 63,450 are people ages 30-39; 55,998 are people ages 40-49; 55,548 are people ages 50-59; 37,530 are people ages 60-69; 21,420 are people ages 70-79; and 14,234 are people age 80 or older.
Nationwide, there have been at least 27,291,313 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 471,821 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 324.7 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.
