COVID-19 In Maryland: Over 600 Hospitalized As Key Metrics Continue To Rise

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 851 caller COVID-19 cases and 3 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Tuesday 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 roseate to 4.83%.

Hospitalizations accrued by 35 to 611. Of those hospitalized, 461 stay successful acute attraction and 150 stay successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 481,569 full confirmed cases and 9,678 deaths.

There are 3,639,627 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,367,697 doses. Of those, 3,728,070 are archetypal doses with 5,400 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,360,487 2nd doses, 4,729 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 279,140 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 377 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 79.3% 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’s a breakdown of the numbers:

By County

County	Cases	Deaths
Allegany	7,291	(214)	1*
Anne Arundel	45,777	(657)	15*
Baltimore	68,177	(1,660)	41*
Baltimore City	54,849	(1,246)	25*
Calvert	4,476	(85)	1*
Caroline	2,435	(31)	0*
Carroll	9,809	(253)	6*
Cecil	6,779	(159)	2*
Charles	11,767	(216)	2*
Dorchester	3,068	(64)	1*
Frederick	20,743	(338)	10*
Garrett	2,126	(65)	1*
Harford	17,390	(299)	6*
Howard	20,047	(256)	7*
Kent	1,414	(49)	2*
Montgomery	73,960	(1,589)	51*
Prince George’s	89,275	(1,572)	42*
Queen Anne’s	3,142	(54)	1*
St. Mary’s	6,563	(135)	1*
Somerset	2,718	(42)	0*
Talbot	2,284	(46)	0*
Washington	15,184	(333)	4*
Wicomico	8,343	(181)	0*
Worcester	3,952	(105)	1*
Data not available	0	(29)	1*

By Age Range and Gender

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Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	28,297	(4)	0*
10-19	50,280	(6)	1*
20-29	88,622	(45)	1*
30-39	82,833	(118)	6*
40-49	71,470	(295)	5*
50-59	70,863	(825)	33*
60-69	47,144	(1,653)	27*
70-79	25,831	(2,455)	44*
80+	16,229	(4,275)	104*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	252,097	(4,682)	107*
Male	229,472	(4,996)	114*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	151,866	(3,508)	82*
Asian (NH)	11,909	(329)	11*
White (NH)	172,195	(4,868)	107*
Hispanic	72,192	(842)	19*
Other (NH)	22,432	(106)	1*
Data not available	50,975	(25)	1*