COVID-19 In Maryland: Hospitalizations Rise to 1,173

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,173 residents are hospitalized with COVID-19, according to authorities wellness section information released Tuesday.

This marks the 5th consecutive time that COVID-related hospitalizations person remained supra 1,000 successful Maryland, which up until precocious hadn’t surpassed that full since precocious April.

Last week, Gov. Larry Hogan announced the authorities would beryllium introducing emergency authorities intended to support Maryland’s hospitals from being overwhelmed arsenic they grapple with rising hospitalizations.

The caller circular of information comes arsenic the Maryland Department of Health deals with a server outage linked to a cyber onslaught earlier this month. As a result, lone vaccination and hospitalization information are up-to-date.

Hospitalizations accrued by 47 to 1,173. Of those hospitalized, 888 adults are successful acute attraction and 273 adults are successful intensive care. There are 9 children successful acute attraction and 3 successful intensive care.

A full of 4,198,006 Marylanders are afloat vaccinated against COVID-19. The authorities has administered 12,755,380 doses of the vaccine. Of those, 4,370,607 are archetypal doses, with 5,246 administered successful the past 24 hours. Health workers person administered 3,873,858 2nd doses, 6,165 successful the past day.

The authorities reports that 324,148 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 192 successful the past day.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information shows astatine slightest 90% of each Marylanders property 18 and older person received astatine slightest 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Even arsenic officials show cases of the caller Omicron variant, which is believed to beryllium much transmissible than different strains, Hogan said helium does not expect imposing immoderate lockdowns successful Maryland. He’s asking residents to socially distance, deterioration masks successful nationalist and get vaccinated.

“Obviously you’re overmuch amended disconnected being afloat immunized,” the politician said. “If you haven’t gotten your booster, you’re astatine greater risk.”

In Maryland, everyone ages 16 and up is eligible to get the booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

To date, the authorities has administered 1,282,265 further oregon booster vaccine doses, 18,145 reported connected Monday.

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