Maryland Covid Case Data Remains Offline; Doctors Warn Of Surging Hospitalizations As State Makes Emergency Hospital Plans

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Cleaning crews successful protective cogwheel sprayed disinfectant wrong Baltimore’s Dunbar High School Wednesday, which remains closed owed to a covid outbreak. At Bowie State University, an outbreak of 80 cases is linked to gatherings off-campus.

1151 radical hospitalized successful Maryland; CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association says galore are astatine their “tipping point.” Rise successful hospitalizations inactive driven by delta variant and the unvaccinated here. Calvert Co. infirmary astatine capableness @wjz

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) December 15, 2021

While galore schools are updating their lawsuit numbers, overmuch of the Maryland Department of Health’s Covid-19 dashboard remains offline due to the fact that of a cyberattack. Case numbers person not been updated since December 3rd.

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“The hospitals request to beryllium capable to program for the aboriginal excessively and not knowing what’s going connected with the lawsuit rates means they can’t task what their hospitalizations are going to beryllium successful 2 weeks,” said Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman, who relies connected the authorities information and said helium cannot get those lawsuit numbers independently.

The Maryland Department of Health said successful a connection Wednesday they are inactive moving to find the origin of the cyberattack connected their system.

New update from Maryland Department of Health connected cyberattack; overmuch of the regular covid accusation remains offline. @wjz pic.twitter.com/c5TkFIfW6x

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) December 15, 2021

New update from Maryland Department of Health connected cyberattack; overmuch of the regular covid accusation remains offline. @wjz pic.twitter.com/c5TkFIfW6x

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) December 15, 2021

Right now, 1,151 Covid-19 patients are successful Maryland hospitals. Pittman said successful his county, hospitalizations person “more than doubled” successful the past 2 weeks, placing hospitals “under a level of accent that is unacceptable.”

Bob Atlas, the CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association, told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren the concern is astatine a “tipping point.”

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“We are precise concerned. Our beds statewide are 93% occupied, which is for each intensive purposes full, and we foresee covid cases rising done the holidays,” Atlas said.

Calvert County’s lone infirmary is present astatine capacity.

Currently, our lone infirmary successful Calvert is astatine capacity. 10 of those aesculapian ward and ICU beds are occupied by radical with terrible Covid infections. 8 of the 10 were unvaccinated, and presumably thought Covid corruption would ne'er endanger them.

— Cal. Co. Health Dept (@CalvertHealth) December 15, 2021

The authorities has opened a “surge cognition center” to coordinate with each infirmary and transportation patients if immoderate facilities go overwhelmed.

Today, I americium announcing a bid of further actions to hole for a further surge successful COVID-19 hospitalizations owed to the convergence of the Delta and Omicron variants.

Details: https://t.co/DVP4rc63mC

— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) December 15, 2021

Many doctors archer WJZ their patients are trending younger—and galore person not yet been vaccinated. They said the superior variant remains delta but they interest astir an omicron surge.

“Now they spot a batch of patients who are unvaccinated, and they cognize if they were vaccinated they astir apt wouldn’t beryllium there,” Atlas said.

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Almost 25,000 radical successful Maryland person received their booster changeable successful the past 24 hours.

Today, I americium announcing a bid of further actions to hole for a further surge successful COVID-19 hospitalizations owed to the convergence of the Delta and Omicron variants.

Details: https://t.co/DVP4rc63mC

— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) December 15, 2021

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