Key points for today
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Talbot County remains at 60 with one death.
• Of that number, 33 patients have recovered and 17 required hospitalization at some point.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is 33,373, an increase of 786 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 1,573 deaths, 35 were in the last 24 hours; another 110 deaths in Maryland are likely due to the novel coronavirus.
The chart below is scrollable and sortable.
Sources: State and local health departments, Johns Hopkins University.
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.
Nursing home data is updated weekly on Wednesdays.
If county and state data conflict, county data is reported.
* Maryland lists the total released from isolation, not the total recovered.
** See related story at talbotspy.org/discrepancies-in-reported-covid-19-deaths-in-kent-queen-annes.
Additional information
• There currently are 1,544 people hospitalized — 959 in acute care and 585 in intensive care. The number of patients currently hospitalized dropped by 96 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 33,373 cases, 6,183 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment.
• Maryland says 2,298 patients have been released from isolation, including 5 in the last 24 hours.
• The state reports 131,407 negative test results, including 4,063 in the last 24 hours.
• Benchmarks for the Maryland Roadmap to Recovery include a 14-day downward trajectory of COVID-19 cases, hospitalization rates (including ICU bed usage), and number of deaths.
The graphs below are from coronavirus.maryland.gov and show the trends for cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Christine Hamilton says
Is the TC Health Dept or anyone TRACKING these positive covid 19 cases? I’ve not seen anything published… but the question remains.
Art Murr says
There is a covid-19 case I know of within a facility in Talbot County