COVID-19 In Maryland: More Than 1.2K New Cases & 14 Deaths Reported Saturday

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,287 caller COVID-19 cases and 14 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Saturday morning.

The percent of radical investigating affirmative accrued somewhat by .01% to 4.08%.

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 3.9 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated.

Hospitalizations decreased by 24 to 752. Of those hospitalized, 548 stay successful acute attraction and 204 are successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 535,157 full confirmed cases and 10,243 deaths.

There are 3,903,142 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,954,222 doses. Of those, 3,957,284 are archetypal doses with 6,899 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,599,123 2nd doses, 6,608 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.

A full of 304,019 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 742 successful the past day.

On September 24, aft the CDC granted last support for Pfizer’s booster, Gov. Hogan announced the contiguous authorization of the booster changeable for Marylanders who person received their 2nd Pfizer changeable astatine slightest six months ago. Hogan had already approved use for susceptible populations successful aboriginal September.

The authorities has administered 92,796 further oregon booster vaccine doses, 11,864 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 83.8% 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 18,243 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Wednesday, Sept. 22.

Of those cases, 1,331 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 8.73% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. One 100 fifty-six afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 8.36% 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	9,028	(232)	2*
Anne Arundel	50,722	(722)	15*
Baltimore	73,936	(1,734)	42*
Baltimore City	59,246	(1,287)	27*
Calvert	5,248	(94)	1*
Caroline	2,945	(39)	0*
Carroll	11,167	(272)	7*
Cecil	8,058	(164)	2*
Charles	13,826	(241)	2*
Dorchester	3,848	(72)	1*
Frederick	23,138	(356)	10*
Garrett	2,738	(70)	1*
Harford	19,464	(330)	8*
Howard	21,956	(262)	7*
Kent	1,576	(50)	3*
Montgomery	80,069	(1,629)	51*
Prince George’s	96,984	(1,639)	44*
Queen Anne’s	3,614	(63)	1*
St. Mary’s	8,825	(148)	1*
Somerset	3,145	(47)	0*
Talbot	2,627	(50)	0*
Washington	17,981	(358)	5*
Wicomico	10,320	(205)	0*
Worcester	4,696	(112)	1*
Data not available	0	(67)	0*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	35,482	(4)	0*
10-19	58,401	(7)	1*
20-29	96,989	(50)	1*
30-39	91,872	(131)	7*
40-49	78,335	(337)	5*
50-59	77,056	(928)	34*
60-69	51,494	(1,763)	28*
70-79	28,246	(2,582)	48*
80+	17,282	(4,438)	107*
Data not available	0	(3)	0*
Female	280,260	(4,930)	111*
Male	254,897	(5,313)	120*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	168,628	(3,678)	86*
Asian (NH)	12,913	(340)	11*
White (NH)	199,281	(5,191)	114*
Hispanic	76,456	(862)	19*
Other (NH)	24,705	(110)	1*
Data not available	53,174	(62)	0*