Key points for today
• Kent County cases increased by 3 to 218, according to the county health department.
• The county’s 7-day average positivity rate is 4.55%.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 77,206, an increase of 835 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 3,238 deaths, 11 were in the last 24 hours.
The Spy obtains information for 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 data throughout the day.
* 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 among state and county statistics concerning total deaths and facility deaths.
Key metrics
• The number of COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Maryland increased by 14 in the last 24 hours.
• There currently are 448 people hospitalized — 311 in acute care and 137 in intensive care.
• Of the 18,053 test results received on July 17, 5.36% were positive; the 7-day average positivity rate was 4.44%.
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Additional information
• A total of 914,954 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Maryland. The state reports 643,780 total negative test results.
• Of the state’s 77,206 cases, 11,788 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment; 5,344 have been released from isolation.
The graph below shows the total cases, total ever hospitalized, and total deaths statewide.
J.M. Kramer says
It is interesting to note that in the last four days Kent county equaled the number of new cases in the preceding 30 days.