Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations increased slightly on Friday, with 18 more people hospitalized due to COVID-19.
Of the 1,444 Marylanders currently hospitalized with coronavirus, 1,103 are in acute care and 341 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients grew by 17 while the number of intensive care patients rose by one.
Since the pandemic began, Maryland has hospitalized a total of 32,687 people with COVID-19.
At least 360,584 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,870,127 have tested negative as of Friday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
The state’s coronavirus caseload grew by 1,547 cases, an increase of 0.43%.
Maryland officials on Friday reported 35 more deaths related to coronavirus, bringing the state’s total number of COVID-19 fatalities to 7,109. There are also 178 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Maryland has completed 7,144,618 coronavirus tests to date, with 42,261 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
On average, 5.94% of the state’s COVID-19 tests over the last seven days came back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 6.08% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 5.86% for Marylanders older than 35.
Maryland on Friday opened two of its mass vaccination sites at Six Flags America in Prince George’s County and the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore City.
The state has distributed the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine to a total of 503,865 Marylanders, including 17,759 who received it in the past 24 hours.
Of the Maryland recipients of the first vaccine dose, 130,190 individuals have received the second vaccine dose, including 14,382 people in the past 24 hours.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, there have been 69,059 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 60,040 in Montgomery County; 48,081 in Baltimore County; 38,432 in Baltimore City; 33,557 in Anne Arundel County; 15,910 in Frederick County; 14,826 in Howard County; 11,620 in Washington County; 11,567 in Harford County; 8,232 in Charles County; 7,078 in Carroll County; 6,469 in Wicomico County; 6,249 in Allegany County; 4,818 in Cecil County; 4,697 in St. Mary’s County; 3,485 in Calvert County; 3,115 in Worcester County; 2,406 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,286 in Somerset County; 2,134 in Dorchester County; 1,924 in Caroline County; 1,807 in Garrett County; 1,731 in Talbot County; and 1,061 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 17,631 are people age 9 or younger; 33,946 are people ages 10-19; 65,560 are people ages 20-29; 62,306 are people ages 30-39; 55,056 are people ages 40-49; 54,457 are people ages 50-59; 36,751 are people ages 60-69; 20,929 are people ages 70-79; and 13,948 are people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 189,111 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 171,473 as male.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 102,381 are Black, 58,871 are Hispanic, 123,509 are white, 7,968 are Asian, 16,894 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 50,961.
Nationwide, there have been at least 26,680,536 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 455,882 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 315.2 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.
