COVID-19 In Maryland: More Than 1K New Cases Reported Saturday As Hospitalizations & Positivity Rate Increase

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,194 caller COVID-19 cases and 10 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.

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.

“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.

“Equally arsenic important arsenic getting a vaccine yourself is helping idiosyncratic you cognize to get a vaccine. The vaccines are precise safe, they are precise effective, they are wholly free, and they are wide disposable astir everywhere.”

More than 3.7 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated. State officials besides reported that the authorities positivity accrued by 0.03 to 4.92%.

Hospitalizations accrued by 8 to 820. Of those hospitalized, 630 stay successful acute attraction and 190 stay successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 502,229 full confirmed cases and 9,837 deaths.

There are 3,755,043 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,593,424 doses. Of those, 3,838,381 are archetypal doses with 5,824 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,466,246 2nd doses, 6,428 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 288,797 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 993 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 81.4% 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 11,454 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Wednesday, September 1.

Of those cases, 883 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 6.5% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. 82 afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 5.3% 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	7,821	(217)	1*
Anne Arundel	47,766	(674)	15*
Baltimore	70,435	(1,679)	41*
Baltimore City	56,419	(1,258)	26*
Calvert	4,742	(89)	1*
Caroline	2,559	(34)	0*
Carroll	10,290	(257)	6*
Cecil	7,228	(160)	2*
Charles	12,664	(222)	2*
Dorchester	3,379	(67)	1*
Frederick	21,762	(341)	10*
Garrett	2,307	(68)	1*
Harford	18,177	(304)	7*
Howard	20,839	(258)	7*
Kent	1,475	(49)	2*
Montgomery	76,611	(1,602)	51*
Prince George’s	92,569	(1,588)	43*
Queen Anne’s	3,293	(57)	1*
St. Mary’s	7,240	(137)	1*
Somerset	2,820	(44)	0*
Talbot	2,380	(49)	0*
Washington	16,118	(343)	5*
Wicomico	9,036	(186)	0*
Worcester	4,299	(108)	1*
Data not available	0	(46)	0*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	30,837	(4)	0*
10-19	52,968	(6)	1*
20-29	92,229	(48)	1*
30-39	86,495	(121)	7*
40-49	74,203	(309)	5*
50-59	73,283	(854)	33*
60-69	48,858	(1,684)	27*
70-79	26,734	(2,488)	46*
80+	16,622	(4,319)	104*
Data not available	0	(4)	0*
Female	263,087	(4,758)	108*
Male	239,142	(5,079)	116*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	158,737	(3,561)	84*
Asian (NH)	12,285	(333)	11*
White (NH)	182,132	(4,945)	109*
Hispanic	73,741	(848)	19*
Other (NH)	23,346	(109)	1*
Data not available	51,988	(41)	0*