COVID-19 In Maryland: 974 New Cases Reported, Positivity Increasing

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 974 caller COVID-19 cases and 46 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Tuesday morning.

Tuesday’s number of caller deaths reflects Saturday, Sunday and Monday’s count. The authorities did caller deaths since Saturday due to the fact that of attraction connected the Vital Statistics Administration’s Electronic Death Registration System.

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The percent of radical investigating affirmative accrued somewhat by .09% to 4.44%.

Doctors accidental the caller cases are fueled by unsafe strains targeting the unvaccinated. During an August property conference, Gov. Larry Hogan said the Delta variant, a strain that is reportedly 2 to 4 times much contagious than the archetypal microorganism strain, accounts for astir each caller confirmed lawsuit successful Maryland.

“The vaccines are without a uncertainty our azygous astir effectual instrumentality to mitigate the menace of COVID-19 and the surging Delta variant, and Maryland’s vaccination complaint continues to outpace the nation,” Hogan said.

More than 3.8 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated.

Hospitalizations stay astatine 825. Of those hospitalized, 618 stay successful acute attraction and 207 are successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 520,236 full confirmed cases and 10,081 deaths.

There are 3,844,981 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,799,486 doses. Of those, 3,911,734 are archetypal doses with 2,983 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,550,964 2nd doses, 3,805 successful the past day.

The authorities began to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine again successful April aft the CDC and FDA lifted their intermission connected the vaccine owed to a uncommon humor clot recovered successful immoderate women.

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A full of 298,240 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 418 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 82.9% of each adults successful Maryland person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine.

In August, the authorities launched a post-vaccination infections dashboard that is updated each Wednesday. There person been 15,917 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Wednesday, Sept. 15.

Of those cases, 1,186 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 8.03% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. One 100 30 afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 7.27% of lab-confirmed Covid deaths successful the state.

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Here’s a breakdown of the numbers:

By County

County Cases Deaths
Allegany 8,612 (226) 2*
Anne Arundel 49,464 (702) 15*
Baltimore 72,338 (1,710) 42*
Baltimore City 57,962 (1,272) 26*
Calvert 4,994 (90) 1*
Caroline 2,767 (39) 0*
Carroll 10,737 (268) 6*
Cecil 7,648 (162) 2*
Charles 13,400 (229) 2*
Dorchester 3,681 (69) 1*
Frederick 22,612 (350) 10*
Garrett 2,552 (68) 1*
Harford 18,938 (322) 7*
Howard 21,518 (262) 7*
Kent 1,533 (50) 3*
Montgomery 78,755 (1,617) 51*
Prince George’s 95,287 (1,616) 43*
Queen Anne’s 3,474 (59) 1*
St. Mary’s 8,055 (141) 1*
Somerset 3,035 (46) 0*
Talbot 2,497 (49) 0*
Washington 17,034 (353) 5*
Wicomico 9,790 (198) 0*
Worcester 4,527 (111) 1*
Data not available 0 (72) 1*

By Age Range and Gender

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Age/Gender Cases Deaths
0-9 33,531 (4) 0*
10-19 56,035 (6) 1*
20-29 95,066 (48) 1*
30-39 89,605 (127) 7*
40-49 76,636 (328) 5*
50-59 75,434 (896) 33*
60-69 50,330 (1,730) 27*
70-79 27,595 (2,539) 47*
80+ 16,978 (4,400) 106*
Data not available 0 (3) 1*
Female 273,115 (4,868) 111*
Male 248,095 (5,213) 117*
Unknown Gender 0 (0) 0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity Cases Deaths
African-American (NH) 164,592 (3,620) 84*
Asian (NH) 12,635 (339) 11*
White (NH) 191,718 (5,089) 112*
Hispanic 75,363 (856) 19*
Other (NH) 24,122 (110) 1*
Data not available 52,780 (67) 1*

CBS Baltimore Staff

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