COVID-19 In Maryland: State Has Administered Over 50K Booster Shots

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,363 caller COVID-19 cases and 14 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Friday morning.

The percent of radical investigating affirmative decreased somewhat by .1% to 4.28%.

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.

“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.

More than 3.8 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated.

Hospitalizations decreased by 20 to 772. Of those hospitalized, 587 stay successful acute attraction and 185 are successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 525,123 full confirmed cases and 10,134 deaths.

There are 3,865,944 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,842,216 doses. Of those, 3,924,568 are archetypal doses with 4,693 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,566,331 2nd doses, 5,326 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 299,613 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 550 successful the past day.

On September 24, aft the CDC granted last support for Pfizer’s booster, Gov. Hogan announced the contiguous authorization of the booster changeable for Marylanders who person received their 2nd Pfizer changeable astatine slightest six months ago. Hogan had already approved use for susceptible populations successful aboriginal September.

The authorities has administered 51,704 further vaccine doses, 1,758 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 83.1% 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 18,243 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Wednesday, Sept. 22.

Of those cases, 1,331 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 8.73% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. One 100 fifty-six afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 8.36% 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	8,734	(228)	2*
Anne Arundel	49,843	(710)	15*
Baltimore	72,781	(1,721)	42*
Baltimore City	58,311	(1,282)	26*
Calvert	5,064	(92)	1*
Caroline	2,807	(39)	0*
Carroll	10,856	(269)	6*
Cecil	7,740	(162)	2*
Charles	13,522	(230)	2*
Dorchester	3,710	(72)	1*
Frederick	22,737	(353)	10*
Garrett	2,595	(69)	1*
Harford	19,080	(325)	8*
Howard	21,634	(262)	7*
Kent	1,539	(49)	3*
Montgomery	79,097	(1,622)	51*
Prince George’s	95,797	(1,623)	43*
Queen Anne’s	3,512	(63)	1*
St. Mary’s	8,268	(143)	1*
Somerset	3,066	(46)	0*
Talbot	2,537	(49)	0*
Washington	17,367	(355)	5*
Wicomico	9,961	(200)	0*
Worcester	4,565	(112)	1*
Data not available	0	(58)	0*

By Age Range and Gender

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Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	34,085	(4)	0*
10-19	56,711	(6)	1*
20-29	95,613	(49)	1*
30-39	90,250	(129)	7*
40-49	77,117	(331)	5*
50-59	75,892	(902)	34*
60-69	50,637	(1,739)	27*
70-79	27,760	(2,559)	47*
80+	17,058	(4,413)	106*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	275,139	(4,890)	111*
Male	249,984	(5,244)	117*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	165,742	(3,645)	85*
Asian (NH)	12,711	(339)	11*
White (NH)	193,818	(5,131)	112*
Hispanic	75,667	(856)	19*
Other (NH)	24,261	(110)	1*
Data not available	52,924	(53)	0*