Maryland added more than 2,900 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours and 45 additional deaths.
The state’s 7-day positivity rate is 8.3%, a decrease of 0.13 percentage points. The rate has been above 8% for 18 days.
Key points for today
• Dorchester County COVID-19 cases increased by 33 to 1,873, according to the county health department.
• The county’s 7-day average positivity rate is 12.67%.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 320,739, an increase of 2,924 in the last 24 hours.
• In the last 24 hours, 45 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 6,322.
The Spy obtains information for this chart between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Statewide data is updated about 10 a.m. each day; counties may update data throughout the day until 5 p.m. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.
* For Kent County deaths, The Spy reports its own tally based on the number of state-reported deaths within Kent County facilities and the number of non-facility deaths. For Queen Anne’s County deaths, The Spy reports the total deaths listed on the county’s website. There are discrepancies among state and county statistics concerning total deaths and facility deaths.
Key metrics
• The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients increased by 5 over the last 24 hours.
• There currently are 1,848 people hospitalized — 1,427 in acute care and 421 in intensive care.
• Of the 54,416 test results received yesterday, 6.79% were positive.
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Md. Hospital Capacity and Beds in Use
Additional information
• A total of 6,352,475 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Maryland; this number does not represent the total number of patients tested as some patients have been tested multiple times. The state reports 2,691,673 people have tested negative.
• Of the state’s 320,739 cases, 29,285 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment; 9,444 have been released from isolation.
Elaine Townsend says
The county’s 7-day average positivity rate is 12.67%.
I’d be interested to know what percentage of these were/are Trump supporters!! I bet it’s high!
Dorchester County was covered with Trump signs and flags. :-((