The number of Marylanders hospitalized due to coronavirus has decreased for 10 consecutive days, reaching 1,048 hospitalizations on Thursday.
Of those currently hospitalized, 769 are in acute care and 279 are in intensive care.
The state saw a net decrease of 48 fewer people hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to Wednesday, with the number of acute care patients having fallen by 55 and the number of intensive care patients having risen by seven.
Since the pandemic began, Maryland has hospitalized a total of 34,168 people due to coronavirus-related complications.
Maryland health officials on Thursday reported 986 new cases, bringing the state’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 373,966, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
At least 2,944,984 have tested negative for the virus as of Thursday morning.
A total of 7,479 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, including 30 deaths that have been reported since Wednesday. There are also 182 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Maryland has completed 7,555,013 coronavirus tests to date, with 35,950 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
On average, 4.13% of the state’s COVID-19 tests over the last seven days have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 4.12% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 4.16% for Marylanders older than 35.
The state has distributed the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine to a total of 670,972 Marylanders, including 15,695 who received it in the past 24 hours.
Of the Maryland recipients of the first vaccine dose, 265,585 individuals have received the second vaccine dose, including 11,833 people in the past 24 hours.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, there have been 71,586 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 62,085 in Montgomery County; 49,762 in Baltimore County; 39,633 in Baltimore City; 34,860 in Anne Arundel County; 16,582 in Frederick County; 15,425 in Howard County; 12,168 in Harford County; 12,164 in Washington County; 8,656 in Charles County; 7,381 in Carroll County; 6,664 in Wicomico County; 6,374 in Allegany County; 4,966 in Cecil County; 4,956 in St. Mary’s County; 3,598 in Calvert County; 3,217 in Worcester County; 2,515 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,356 in Somerset County; 2,264 in Dorchester County; 2,005 in Caroline County; 1,832 in Garrett County; 1,818 in Talbot County; and 1,099 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 106,711 are Black, 60,548 are Hispanic, 128,821 are white, 8,370 are Asian, 17,535 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 51,981.
Of Maryland’s confirmed coronavirus cases, 18,510 are people age 9 or younger; 35,529 are people ages 10-19; 67,808 are people ages 20-29; 64,379 are people ages 30-39; 56,851 are people ages 40-49; 56,481 are people ages 50-59; 38,191 are people ages 60-69; 21,758 are people ages 70-79; and 14,459 are people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 195,884 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 178,082 as male.
Nationwide, there have been at least 27,828,165 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 490,718 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 334.9 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.
