Key points for today
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Talbot County is 99, an increase of one in the last 24 hours.
• A food distribution will be held Friday, June 5, at New St. John’s Methodist Church in Wittman and on Monday, June 8, at Chapel District Elementary School in Cordova.
• The 50-bed modular tent at Shore Region Medical Center at Easton will be operational by Friday, June 5.
A group of county childcare professionals is meeting to establish protocols for reopening childcare centers, which is key to successfully reopening businesses.
• The Talbot CARES Individual Assistance Program, administered by the Department of Social Services and Talbot County Finance, is taking applications. A small business assistance program will be announced on Friday.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 55,858, an increase of 876 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 2,546 deaths, 27 were in the last 24 hours; another 122 deaths in Maryland are likely due to the novel coronavirus.
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The Spy updates this chart between 2 and 3 p.m. Statewide data is updated about 10 a.m. each day; counties may update data throughout the day until 5 p.m. Hopkins updates its map data throughout the day.
Congregate living facilities data is updated weekly on Wednesdays.
* Maryland and Cecil County report the total released from isolation.
** 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 within among state and county statistics concerning total deaths and facility deaths due to the reliance on death certificate information on county of residence for the total deaths reported by the state.
Key metrics
• The number of hospitalizations, an important metric in the Governor’s Roadmap to Recovery, continues to decrease (see chart below).
• There currently are 1,096 people hospitalized — 640 in acute care and 456 in intensive care. The number of hospitalized patients decreased by 17 in the last 24 hours.
• Governor Larry Hogan announces that Stage 2 of the Maryland Roadmap to Recovery will begin Friday, June 5. More information may be found at governor.maryland.gov/recovery.
Additional information
• Of those tested for COVID-19 on June 3, 7.84% tested positive; the 5-day rolling average was 8.91%.
• Of the state’s 55,858 cases, 9,217 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment.
• Maryland says 3,985 patients have been released from isolation, including 15 in the last 24 hours.
• The state reports 281,160 negative test results, including 8,517 in the last 24 hours.
The graph below shows the total cases, total ever hospitalized, and total deaths statewide.
Bonnie Wooters says
How do I find the daily totals for each county statistics that were normally immediately apparent. I look for Talbot, Caroline and Dorchester?
John Griep says
Those are in the table at the top entitled “COVID-19 Statistics for June 4, 2020.”
Wootets says
It usually appears like this but only shows Kent and Queen Anne:
COVID-19 Statistics for June 2, 2020
Confirmed Cases Daily Change Total Recovered* Cases within facilities Percent cases within facilities Cases per 100k Pop. Total Deaths** Deaths within facilities Percent deaths in facilities*** Deaths per 100k Pop.
Caroline 263 3 180 1 0 790 1 0 0 3
Cecil 387 0 250 69 18 376 29 1 3 28
Del. 9,605 107 5,353 986 368 38
Dorchester 145 3 120 3 2 454 3 0 0 9
Kent 174 0 N/A 109 63 898 28 26 93 144
Md. 54,175 848 3,855 9,315 17 896 2,474 1,290 52 41
Mid-Shore 839 10 N/A 127 15 487 41 28 68 24
QA 161 2 N/A 13 8 320 5 2 0 10
Talbot 96 2 68 1 1 258 4 0 0 11
USA 1,812,742 – 458,231 552 105,262 32
World 6,309,107 – 2,721
John Griep says
I have discovered the problem — a setting I thought would make the table better for mobile devices appears to have cut off most of the data instead. I will be updating the charts for the past few days with that setting turned back off.