COVID-19 In Maryland: Over 1,100 New Cases Reported, 11 New Deaths

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,190 caller COVID-19 cases and 11 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Wednesday 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 accrued by 0.04 to 4.93%.

Hospitalizations decreased by 10 to 709. Of those hospitalized, 556 stay successful acute attraction and 163 stay successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 489,930 full confirmed cases and 9,745 deaths.

As of Tuesday determination are 3,678,839 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,447,462 doses. Of those, 3,768,623 are archetypal doses with 5,257 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,397,302 2nd doses, 5,278 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 281,537 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 413 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 80.1% 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 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	7,511	(214)	1*
Anne Arundel	46,586	(664)	15*
Baltimore	69,110	(1,668)	41*
Baltimore City	55,471	(1,251)	25*
Calvert	4,577	(86)	1*
Caroline	2,476	(33)	0*
Carroll	9,990	(254)	6*
Cecil	6,960	(159)	2*
Charles	12,100	(218)	2*
Dorchester	3,199	(65)	1*
Frederick	21,213	(340)	10*
Garrett	2,204	(65)	1*
Harford	17,710	(302)	7*
Howard	20,332	(258)	7*
Kent	1,438	(49)	2*
Montgomery	75,053	(1,594)	51*
Prince George’s	90,683	(1,577)	43*
Queen Anne’s	3,204	(56)	1*
St. Mary’s	6,828	(136)	1*
Somerset	2,748	(43)	0*
Talbot	2,327	(46)	0*
Washington	15,531	(336)	4*
Wicomico	8,587	(181)	0*
Worcester	4,092	(107)	1*
Data not available	0	(43)	0*

By Age Range and Gender

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Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	29,255	(4)	0*
10-19	51,333	(6)	1*
20-29	90,193	(46)	1*
30-39	84,292	(118)	7*
40-49	72,548	(306)	5*
50-59	71,888	(839)	33*
60-69	47,825	(1,665)	27*
70-79	26,210	(2,469)	44*
80+	16,386	(4,289)	104*
Data not available	0	(3)	0*
Female	256,606	(4,713)	107*
Male	233,324	(5,032)	115*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	154,753	(3,525)	83*
Asian (NH)	12,072	(331)	11*
White (NH)	176,185	(4,896)	108*
Hispanic	72,792	(846)	19*
Other (NH)	22,783	(108)	1*
Data not available	51,345	(39)	0*