COVID-19 In Maryland: More Than 1K New Cases & 15 Deaths Reported Saturday

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ANNAPOLIS Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,131 caller COVID-19 cases and 15 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Saturday morning.

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.

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Hogan besides said less than 0.01% of vaccinated Marylanders person been hospitalized with COVID-19, and little than 0.001% of vaccinated Marylanders person died from the virus.

More than 3.6 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated. State officials besides reported that the authorities positivity roseate to 5.07%.

Hospitalizations decreased by 1 to 655. Of those hospitalized, 496 stay successful acute attraction and 159 stay successful the ICU arsenic of Saturday.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 485,978 full confirmed cases and 9,716 deaths.

There are 3,664,666 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,419,809 doses. Of those, 3,755,143 are archetypal doses with 6,383 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,383,833 2nd doses, 5,847 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 280,833 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 405 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 79.9% of each adults successful Maryland person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine.

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In August, the authorities launched a post-vaccination infections dashboard that is updated each Wednesday. There person been 7,033 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Wednesday, August 18.

Of those cases, 627 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 5% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. 71 afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 4.6% 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 7,419 (214) 1*
Anne Arundel 46,168 (662) 15*
Baltimore 68,696 (1,666) 41*
Baltimore City 55,156 (1,248) 25*
Calvert 4,520 (86) 1*
Caroline 2,462 (32) 0*
Carroll 9,899 (254) 6*
Cecil 6,879 (159) 2*
Charles 11,946 (217) 2*
Dorchester 3,138 (64) 1*
Frederick 20,995 (339) 10*
Garrett 2,176 (65) 1*
Harford 17,551 (302) 7*
Howard 20,196 (257) 7*
Kent 1,435 (49) 2*
Montgomery 74,553 (1,591) 51*
Prince George’s 90,005 (1,575) 43*
Queen Anne’s 3,175 (55) 1*
St. Mary’s 6,697 (135) 1*
Somerset 2,727 (43) 0*
Talbot 2,311 (46) 0*
Washington 15,376 (336) 4*
Wicomico 8,466 (181) 0*
Worcester 4,032 (107) 1*
Data not available 0 (33) 0*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender Cases Deaths
0-9 28,796 (4) 0*
10-19 50,849 (6) 1*
20-29 89,449 (46) 1*
30-39 83,604 (118) 7*
40-49 72,038 (300) 5*
50-59 71,391 (833) 33*
60-69 47,503 (1,657) 27*
70-79 26,030 (2,463) 44*
80+ 16,318 (4,287) 104*
Data not available 0 (2) 0*
Female 254,489 (4,703) 107*
Male 231,489 (5,013) 115*
Unknown Gender 0 (0) 0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity Cases Deaths
African-American (NH) 153,406 (3,516) 83*
Asian (NH) 11,995 (330) 11*
White (NH) 174,254 (4,888) 108*
Hispanic 72,526 (846) 19*
Other (NH) 22,610 (107) 1*
Data not available 51,187 (29) 0*

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