There are 1,039 Marylanders hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Monday morning, the first time in more than a month that hospitalizations have been above 1,000.
State health officials have also confirmed more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases per day for six consecutive days, with 1,031 new cases reported on Monday.
At least 409,075 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 3,158,884 have tested negative as of Monday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Two weeks after Gov. Larry Hogan eased COVID-19 restrictions in Maryland, the state’s average positivity rate and hospitalizations have been on the rise.
Maryland health officials on Monday reported that 69 more people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 than on Sunday.
Of the 1,039 Marylanders currently hospitalized with coronavirus, 791 are in acute care and 248 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients climbed by 56 while the number of intensive care patients rose by 13.
The last time hospitalizations were higher than 1,000 was when the state recorded 1,049 hospitalized COVID-19 patients on Feb. 20.
To date, Maryland has hospitalized a total of 37,578 people with COVID-19.
Maryland has completed 8,727,009 coronavirus tests to date, with 17,562 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the last seven days, an average of 4.99% of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests has been trending upward since the beginning of March.
The average positivity rate yesterday was 5.12% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 4.89% for Marylanders older than 35.
A total of 8,075 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with nine additional deaths reported since Sunday. There are also 185 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Of the two-dose vaccines, Maryland has administered a total of 1,652,999 first doses and 841,925 second doses.
In the past 24 hours, providers have administered 19,586 first doses and 10,376 second doses.
Maryland providers have also administered single-dose vaccines to a total of 69,583 people, including 1,682 doses that were administered in the past 24 hours.
A total of 911,508 Marylanders have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state data showed on Monday.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 77,701 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 66,491 in Montgomery County; 55,451 in Baltimore County; 44,237 in Baltimore City; 38,671 in Anne Arundel County; 18,097 Frederick County; 17,148 in Howard County; 13,898 in Harford County; 13,156 in Washington County; 9,676 in Charles County; 8,192 in Carroll County; 7,066 in Wicomico County; 6,508 in Allegany County; 5,396 in St. Mary’s County; 5,320 in Cecil County; 3,898 in Calvert County; 3,362 in Worcester County; 2,692 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,469 in Somerset County; 2,464 in Dorchester County; 2,112 in Caroline County; 1,954 in Talbot County; 1,900 in Garrett County; and 1,216 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 21,098 cases in people age 9 or younger; 40,193 in people ages 10-19; 74,745 in people ages 20-29; 70,040 in people ages 30-39; 61,622 in people ages 40-49; 61,482 in people ages 50-59; 41,509 in people ages 60-69; 23,256 in people ages 70-79; and 15,130 in people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 213,674 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 195,401 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 120,416 are Black, 9,633 are Asian, 143,242 are white, 64,371 are Hispanic, 19,305 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 52,108.
Nationwide, there have been at least 30,263,027 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 549,335 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 388.6 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Monday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
