The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data is updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.
Key points for today
• Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency Tuesday, but did not impose a statewide mask mandate. He urged Maryland residents to get vaccinated and get booster shots, noting those who were not fully vaccinated accounted for “nearly 75%” of positive tests and “nearly 84%” of COVID-19 deaths in 2021.
• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.
• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 28.14% and its case rate is 153.67 cases per 100,000 population.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 776,230, an increase of 10,286 in the last 24 hours.
• In the last 24 hours, 49 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 11,755.
• The state’s average positivity rate is 28.56%, up 1.12 percentage points from yesterday.
• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 3,118, up 61 from yesterday.
fay mauro says
Thank you so much for resuming this sadly necessary report.
Rebecca Ellison says
Thank you Spy for resuming good local Covid reporting.
Another good source of information is the personalized daily email that subscribers to the New York Times ‘Your Coronavirus Tracker’ receive each morning. The NYT email provides a customized daily Covid report(for the locations which you have specified. Your list of locations can be edited at any time.
Check out this link … https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases-deaths-tracker.html . A year’s NYT subscription (perhaps a limited holiday offer?) has recently been advertised for $9.98 per YEAR.
DANNA M. MURDEN says
Will Talbot County death totals count the young woman from Tilghman who was sent to a Hospital in Virginia and just died.