COVID-19 In Maryland: More Than 1K New Cases & 20 Deaths Reported Saturday

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,376 caller COVID-19 cases and 20 deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Saturday morning.

The percent of radical investigating affirmative accrued by 0.08, presently sitting astatine 4.75%.

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 3.7 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated.

Hospitalizations decreased by 8, to 822. Of those hospitalized, 608 stay successful acute attraction and 214 are successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 509,393 full confirmed cases and 9,935 deaths.

There are 3,793,793 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,661,394 doses. Of those, 3,867,601 are archetypal doses with 5,165 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,500,599 2nd doses, 5,690 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 293,194 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 318 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 82% 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 14,006 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Sunday, Sept. 5.

Of those cases, 1,060 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 7.4% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. One 100 afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 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	8,080	(219)	1*
Anne Arundel	48,437	(683)	15*
Baltimore	71,133	(1,698)	41*
Baltimore City	56,990	(1,261)	26*
Calvert	4,805	(90)	1*
Caroline	2,628	(36)	0*
Carroll	10,447	(260)	6*
Cecil	7,367	(160)	2*
Charles	12,951	(224)	2*
Dorchester	3,514	(68)	1*
Frederick	22,093	(343)	10*
Garrett	2,373	(68)	1*
Harford	18,488	(308)	7*
Howard	21,123	(259)	7*
Kent	1,499	(49)	2*
Montgomery	77,406	(1,610)	51*
Prince George’s	93,693	(1,599)	43*
Queen Anne’s	3,360	(58)	1*
St. Mary’s	7,528	(138)	1*
Somerset	2,882	(45)	0*
Talbot	2,426	(49)	0*
Washington	16,441	(346)	5*
Wicomico	9,341	(191)	0*
Worcester	4,388	(109)	1*
Data not available	0	(64)	0*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	31,786	(4)	0*
10-19	54,039	(6)	1*
20-29	93,366	(48)	1*
30-39	87,752	(124)	7*
40-49	75,127	(315)	5*
50-59	74,122	(871)	33*
60-69	49,412	(1,701)	27*
70-79	27,041	(2,510)	46*
80+	16,748	(4,354)	104*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	266,861	(4,798)	108*
Male	242,532	(5,137)	116*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

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By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	161,123	(3,583)	84*
Asian (NH)	12,434	(335)	11*
White (NH)	185,566	(4,998)	109*
Hispanic	74,416	(851)	19*
Other (NH)	23,643	(110)	1*
Data not available	52,211	(58)	0*