COVID-19 In Maryland: State Reaches 80% Vaccination Milestone

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ANNAPOLIS Md. (WJZ) — Governor Larry Hogan announced Sunday greeting that according to authoritative CDC data, the authorities of Maryland has achieved the milestone of vaccinating 80% of adults with astatine slightest 1 dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

“After vaccinating 70 percent of Maryland adults by Memorial Day-months up of the extremity acceptable by President Biden-we person achieved different large milestone by vaccinating 80 percent of each adults by Labor Day,” Governor Hogan said.

“As 1 of the astir vaccinated states, our wellness metrics are among the lowest successful America, and we are overmuch amended prepared to withstand the important summertime surge of the Delta variant, which galore different states with little vaccination rates are present experiencing. The vaccines are precise safe, they are precise effective, they are wholly free, and they are wide disposable astir everywhere.”

This comes arsenic Maryland reported 990 caller COVID-19 cases and 5 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Sunday 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 5.08%.

Hospitalizations decreased by 8 to 647. Of those hospitalized, 481 stay successful acute attraction and 166 stay successful the ICU arsenic of Sunday.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 486,968 full confirmed cases and 9,721 deaths.

There are 3,669,581 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,429,984 doses. Of those, 3,760,403 are archetypal doses with 5,260 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,388,563 2nd doses, 4,730 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 281,018 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 185 successful the past day.

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	7,431	(214)	1*
Anne Arundel	46,334	(662)	15*
Baltimore	68,788	(1,666)	41*
Baltimore City	55,244	(1,249)	25*
Calvert	4,534	(86)	1*
Caroline	2,467	(32)	0*
Carroll	9,914	(254)	6*
Cecil	6,901	(159)	2*
Charles	11,975	(217)	2*
Dorchester	3,162	(64)	1*
Frederick	21,053	(339)	10*
Garrett	2,180	(65)	1*
Harford	17,586	(302)	7*
Howard	20,233	(257)	7*
Kent	1,435	(49)	2*
Montgomery	74,662	(1,591)	51*
Prince George’s	90,148	(1,575)	43*
Queen Anne’s	3,179	(55)	1*
St. Mary’s	6,714	(135)	1*
Somerset	2,734	(43)	0*
Talbot	2,320	(46)	0*
Washington	15,422	(336)	4*
Wicomico	8,495	(181)	0*
Worcester	4,057	(107)	1*
Data not available	0	(37)	0*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	28,915	(4)	0*
10-19	50,973	(6)	1*
20-29	89,625	(46)	1*
30-39	83,772	(118)	7*
40-49	72,159	(301)	5*
50-59	71,515	(834)	33*
60-69	47,590	(1,659)	27*
70-79	26,080	(2,464)	44*
80+	16,339	(4,287)	104*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	255,029	(4,705)	107*
Male	231,939	(5,016)	115*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	153,738	(3,517)	83*
Asian (NH)	12,012	(330)	11*
White (NH)	174,764	(4,888)	108*
Hispanic	72,572	(846)	19*
Other (NH)	22,661	(107)	1*
Data not available	51,221	(33)	0*