COVID-19 In Maryland: More Than 1K New Cases Saturday As Hospitalizations Continue To Rise

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,016 caller COVID-19 cases and 9 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.

More than 3.6 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated. State officials besides reported that the authorities positivity went up to 4.54%.

Hospitalizations accrued by 30 to 522. Of those hospitalized, 387 stay successful acute attraction and 135 stay successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 479,083 full confirmed cases and 9,666 deaths.

There are 3,627,752 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,342,851 doses. Of those, 3,715,099 are archetypal doses with 6,758 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,349,289 2nd doses, 5,131 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 278,463 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 364 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 79.1% 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 5,139 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Wednesday, August 11.

Of those cases, 519 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 4.3% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. 61 afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 4% of lab-confirmed Covid deaths successful the state.

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Here are the latest numbers successful Maryland:

By County

County	Cases	Deaths
Allegany	7,241	(214)	1*
Anne Arundel	45,595	(657)	15*
Baltimore	67,869	(1,658)	41*
Baltimore City	54,641	(1,244)	25*
Calvert	4,443	(85)	1*
Caroline	2,424	(31)	0*
Carroll	9,773	(253)	6*
Cecil	6,733	(159)	2*
Charles	11,647	(216)	2*
Dorchester	3,033	(64)	1*
Frederick	20,598	(338)	10*
Garrett	2,116	(65)	1*
Harford	17,291	(299)	6*
Howard	19,952	(256)	7*
Kent	1,405	(49)	2*
Montgomery	73,645	(1,588)	51*
Prince George’s	88,816	(1,571)	42*
Queen Anne’s	3,117	(54)	1*
St. Mary’s	6,481	(133)	1*
Somerset	2,710	(42)	0*
Talbot	2,272	(46)	0*
Washington	15,111	(333)	4*
Wicomico	8,269	(180)	0*
Worcester	3,901	(105)	1*
Data not available	0	(26)	1*

By Age Range and Gender

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Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	28,015	(4)	0*
10-19	49,969	(6)	1*
20-29	88,181	(45)	1*
30-39	82,347	(115)	6*
40-49	71,111	(295)	5*
50-59	70,568	(824)	33*
60-69	46,972	(1,652)	27*
70-79	25,729	(2,451)	44*
80+	16,191	(4,272)	104*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	250,719	(4,676)	107*
Male	228,364	(4,990)	114*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	150,934	(3,505)	82*
Asian (NH)	11,851	(329)	11*
White (NH)	171,106	(4,862)	107*
Hispanic	72,033	(842)	19*
Other (NH)	22,318	(106)	1*
Data not available	50,841	(22)	1*