A total of 2,810,510 Marylanders have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state data showed on Wednesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported that 68.5% of Marylanders age 18 and older have received at least one vaccine dose.
Of the two-dose vaccines, Maryland has administered a total of 3,162,034 first doses and 2,580,815 second doses.
In the past 24 hours, providers have administered 15,701 first doses and 18,944 second doses.
Maryland providers have also administered single-dose vaccines to a total of 229,695 people, including 1,606 doses that were reported in the past 24 hours.
At least 458,878 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 3,461,113 have tested negative as of Wednesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s COVID-19 caseload rose by 198, an increase of about 0.04%.
A total of 8,846 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with eight additional deaths reported since Tuesday. There are also 191 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
The state has completed 10,306,108 coronavirus tests to date, with 18,141 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
An average of 1.87% 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 2.13% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 1.68% for Marylanders older than 35.
Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations continued to decrease on Wednesday with 10 fewer people currently hospitalized due to COVID-19 compared to Tuesday.
Of the 432 Marylanders currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 312 are in acute care and 120 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients dropped by 12 while the number of intensive care patients rose by two.
To date, Maryland has recorded a total of 43,124 coronavirus hospitalizations.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 84,876 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 70,743 in Montgomery County; 65,494 in Baltimore County; 52,759 in Baltimore City; 43,685 in Anne Arundel County; 19,736 in Frederick County; 19,185 in Howard County; 16,525 in Harford County; 14,546 in Washington County; 10,820 in Charles County; 9,464 in Carroll County; 7,651 in Wicomico County; 6,989 in Allegany County; 6,281 in Cecil County; 6,010 in St. Mary’s County; 4,209 in Calvert County; 3,623 in Worcester County; 2,988 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,821 in Dorchester County; 2,605 in Somerset County; 2,336 in Caroline County; 2,155 in Talbot County; 2,030 in Garrett County; and 1,347 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has identified 240,041 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 218,837 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 142,295 are Black, 11,085 are Asian, 162,096 are white, 69,423 are Hispanic, 21,401 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 52,578.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 25,809 are people age 9 or younger; 47,277 are people ages 10-19; 84,142 are people ages 20-29; 78,611 are people ages 30-39; 68,399 are people ages 40-49; 68,308 are people ages 50-59; 45,483 are people ages 60-69; 24,996 are people ages 70-79; and 15,853 are people age 80 or older.
Nationwide, there have been at least 33,167,101 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 590,995 deaths. The U.S. has administered 287,335,583 coronavirus vaccine doses to date as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
