Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have decreased for four consecutive days and the metric has been trending downward for about six weeks.
OF the 943 Marylanders currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 698 are in acute care and 245 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients declined by 11 while the number of intensive care patients rose by two, marking a net decrease of nine fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Thursday.
The state has hospitalized a total of 34,848 coronavirus patients since the pandemic began nearly a year ago.
At least 380,436 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,986,551 have tested negative as of Friday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload grew by 970, an increase of about 0.26%.
The state has completed 7,804,095 coronavirus tests to date, with 48,066 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
An average of 3.66% 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 4.12% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 3.36% for Marylanders older than 35.
Maryland officials on Friday reported 33 more deaths due to COVID-19, the largest number of daily reported deaths in the past two weeks, though the state does not always report deaths on the day they occurred.
A total of 7,656 Marylanders have been confirmed to have died from COVID-19, and the deaths of another 182 Marylanders are suspected to be related to the virus.
The state has distributed the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine to a total of 799,463 Marylanders, including 15,198 who received it in the past 24 hours.
Of the Maryland recipients of the first vaccine dose, 426,984 individuals have received the second vaccine dose, including 23,442 people in the past 24 hours.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, there have been 72,990 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 63,039 in Montgomery County; 50,669 in Baltimore County; 40,186 in Baltimore City; 35,510 in Anne Arundel County; 16,869 in Frederick County; 15,724 in Howard County; 12,432 in Harford County; 12,366 in Washington County; 8,864 in Charles County; 7,516 in Carroll County; 6,750 in Wicomico County; 6,400 in Allegany County; 5,079 in St. Mary’s County; 4,998 in Cecil County; 3,639 in Calvert County; 3,258 in Worcester County; 2,563 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,381 in Somerset County; 2,336 in Dorchester County; 2,036 in Caroline County; 1,870 in Talbot County; 1,841 in Garrett County; and 1,120 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for coronavirus, 18,909 are people age 9 or younger; 36,426 are people ages 10-19; 69,089 are people ages 20-29; 65,363 are people ages 30-39; 57,715 are people ages 40-49; 57,385 are people ages 50-59; 38,861 are people ages 60-69; 22,080 are people ages 70-79; and 14,608 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 199,081 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 181,355 as male.
Of the people who have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic, 108,964 are Black, 61,264 are Hispanic, 131,459 are white, 8,571 are Asian, are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 52,321.
Nationwide, there have been at least 28,415,626 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 508,359 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 345.9 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.
