COVID-19 In Maryland: Over 700 Hospitalized, Positivity Falls For Second Day In A Row

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 847 caller COVID-19 cases and 8 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 decreased by 0.08 to 4.89%. It is the 2nd time successful a enactment that the authorities positivity has decreased aft weeks of a dependable rise.

Hospitalizations accrued by 21 to 719. Of those hospitalized, 538 stay successful acute attraction and 160 stay successful the ICU arsenic of Friday.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 488,740 full confirmed cases and 9,734 deaths.

There 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	7,488	(214)	1*
Anne Arundel	46,470	(663)	15*
Baltimore	68,984	(1,668)	41*
Baltimore City	55,368	(1,250)	25*
Calvert	4,563	(86)	1*
Caroline	2,472	(33)	0*
Carroll	9,965	(254)	6*
Cecil	6,941	(159)	2*
Charles	12,053	(218)	2*
Dorchester	3,184	(65)	1*
Frederick	21,151	(340)	10*
Garrett	2,202	(65)	1*
Harford	17,654	(302)	7*
Howard	20,295	(257)	7*
Kent	1,438	(49)	2*
Montgomery	74,912	(1,594)	51*
Prince George’s	90,454	(1,575)	43*
Queen Anne’s	3,196	(56)	1*
St. Mary’s	6,779	(135)	1*
Somerset	2,744	(43)	0*
Talbot	2,323	(46)	0*
Washington	15,467	(336)	4*
Wicomico	8,556	(181)	0*
Worcester	4,081	(107)	1*
Data not available	0	(38)	0*

By Age Range and Gender

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Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	29,111	(4)	0*
10-19	51,170	(6)	1*
20-29	89,989	(46)	1*
30-39	84,081	(118)	7*
40-49	72,387	(304)	5*
50-59	71,739	(837)	33*
60-69	47,728	(1,662)	27*
70-79	26,165	(2,466)	44*
80+	16,370	(4,289)	104*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	255,963	(4,708)	107*
Male	232,777	(5,026)	115*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	154,341	(3,521)	83*
Asian (NH)	12,048	(331)	11*
White (NH)	175,622	(4,894)	108*
Hispanic	72,705	(846)	19*
Other (NH)	22,740	(108)	1*
Data not available	51,284	(34)	0*