Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations held relatively steady with an increase of six more COVID-19 patients on Thursday, state data show.
Of the 353 Marylanders who are currently hospitalized due to coronavirus, 270 are in acute care and 83 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients rose by nine while the number of intensive care patients declined by three, marking a net increase of six more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Wednesday.
Since the pandemic began, Maryland has hospitalized a total of 15,008 people with COVID-19.
At least 118,519 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 1,375,823 have tested negative as of Thursday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload rose by 631, an increase of 0.5 percent.
The state reported an additional 27,343 coronavirus test results in the past 24 hours and has completed a total of 2,299,608 tests to date.
Over the last seven days, an average of 3.33 percent of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 4.75 percent for Marylanders younger than 35 and 2.53 percent for Marylanders older than 35.
A total of 3,717 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with five additional deaths reported since Wednesday. There are also 144 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, there have been 28,202 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 21,574 in Montgomery County; 17,221 in Baltimore County; 15,129 in Baltimore City; 9,452 in Anne Arundel County; 4,863 in Howard County; 3,834 in Frederick County; 2,883 in Harford County; 2,646 in Charles County; 1,888 in Carroll County; 1,846 in Wicomico County; 1,556 in Washington County; 1,232 in St. Mary’s County; 974 in Worcester County; 964 in Cecil County; 898 in Calvert County; 626 in Queen Anne’s County; 620 in Caroline County; 554 in Dorchester County; 520 in Talbot County; 435 in Allegany County; 293 in Kent County; 238 in Somerset County; and 71 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of the state’s confirmed coronavirus cases, 4,366 have been people age 9 or younger; 9,614 have been people ages 10-19; 22,145 have been people ages 20-29; 21,563 have been people ages 30-39; 19,115 have been people ages 40-49; 17,323 have been people ages 50-59; 11,645 have been people ages 60-69; 7,010 have been people ages 70-79; and 5,738 have been people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 62,656 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 55,863 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 37,823 have been Black, 26,042 have been Hispanic, 29,083 have been white, 2,259 have been Asian, 5,463 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 17,849.
Nationwide, there have been at least 6,632,689 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 196,842 deaths and 2,525,573 recoveries. More than 90.7 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Thursday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
