![]() ![]() Maryland did not announce new cases and deaths for the Christmas holiday. Maryland added many cases and deaths in Kent County after resolving a technical issue. Maryland did not announce new cases and deaths for the New Year's holiday. Maryland added about 24,800 cases from recent months representing people who were infected more than once. The Times began including death certificate data reconciled by the C.D.C., resulting in a one-day increase in total deaths. ![]() More about reporting anomalies or changes State residents were encouraged to stay home and avoid the roads when possible.The Times has identified reporting anomalies or methodology changes in the data. Icy conditions are expected Tuesday morning. Several testing centers were closed Monday due to a winter snowstorm that also shuttered area school systems. Mary’s are Dorchester (21.24) Baltimore (19.78) and Howard (19.55) counties.Īllegany, Washington, Wicomico and Somerset counties lead in the total number of COVID-19 cases per 1,000 people ever confirmed, with 179.07, 172.17, 167.69 and 155, respectively. State data points to Baltimore City as having the highest case rate per 1,000 people over a 14-day period, with 28.61, followed by Charles (27.78), Prince George’s (25.95), Montgomery (22.82) and St. Joe’s, said staff members, though “exhausted,” continue to provide the highest caliber of clinical care to patients. Over the 10 days, several area hospitals have shifted to the emergency standards, including the Luminis Health’s hospitals in Annapolis and Lanham, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore and University of Maryland’s Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace and Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie. Larry Hogan said his administration would focus on curbing hospitalizations by issuing a mask requirement inside state government buildings, providing paid leave for employees to get booster shots, and granting state agencies more flexibility to institute telework and “hybrid” work policies.Ītlas said the move would help hospitals as they shift to crisis-mode standards of care, enabling them to ease some of the burden on medical personnel, including postponing some patients’ surgical procedures, cutting back on documentation for now, and converting physical spaces to other uses as needed. ![]() “The frustrating part is, we could have this peak now, and have it head down immediately, but we’re not willing to do that.” “We’re failing to do the things we know work: wearing masks appropriately, and at the right times failing to wash hands and socially distance getting vaccinated and getting tested and staying home when you feel sick. “It’s just really frustrating, because we do have a lot of power in our own hands to slow this spread,” Thompson said. The rising surveillance metrics point to indifference and fatigue among Marylanders, some of whom may be averse to changing their behaviors at this point in the pandemic, said Christopher Thompson, an immunologist and associate professor in the department of biology at Loyola University Maryland. Officials reported 26 more deaths Monday, pushing the toll to 11,658 since the pandemic swept into the state in March 2020. The rising cases and hospitalizations have translated to a growing number of COVID-related deaths. ![]()
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