Maryland Department of Health is reporting 992 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Howard County (up 23 from yesterday) and 26,408 cases in Maryland (up 946 from yesterday) on May 4th.
Howard County Health Department is reporting 990 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Howard County per their dashboard this morning:
In Howard County zip code 21045 has the most total cases of Coronavirus (179) and zip code 20763 has the highest concentration of cases “rate per 10,000” (52):
Note: I am switching my daily COVID-19 tracking charts to weekly COVID-19 tracking charts and will be releasing them on Saturday mornings going forward. Both the state and the county websites have the daily numbers and daily charts (see below).
COVID-19 Statistics in Maryland
Number of confirmed cases : 26,408
Number of negative test results : 110,587
Number of confirmed deaths : 1,216
Number of probable deaths : 101
Currently hospitalized : 1,649
Acute care : 1,086
Intensive care : 563
Ever hospitalized : 5,199
Released from isolation : 1,695
Cases and Deaths Data Breakdown:
Parenthesis = Confirmed death, laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 test result
Asterisk = Probable death, death certificate lists COVID-19 as the cause of death but not yet confirmed by a laboratory test
NH = Non-Hispanic
By County
| County | Cases | Deaths | |
| Allegany | 126 | (12) | |
| Anne Arundel | 2,018 | (93) | 8* |
| Baltimore City | 2,411 | (120) | 9* |
| Baltimore County | 3,448 | (136) | 15* |
| Calvert | 171 | (10) | 1* |
| Caroline | 98 | ||
| Carroll | 506 | (47) | |
| Cecil | 194 | (10) | |
| Charles | 651 | (47) | 3* |
| Dorchester | 75 | (2) | |
| Frederick | 1,038 | (55) | 7* |
| Garrett | 4 | ||
| Harford | 491 | (10) | 6* |
| Howard | 992 | (21) | 1* |
| Kent | 95 | (7) | |
| Montgomery | 5,384 | (274) | 27* |
| Prince George’s | 7,598 | (271) | 13* |
| Queen Anne’s | 63 | (8) | |
| St. Mary’s | 168 | (7) | |
| Somerset | 35 | ||
| Talbot | 45 | (1) | |
| Washington | 237 | (6) | |
| Wicomico | 480 | (10) | |
| Worcester | 80 | (2) | 1* |
| Data not available | (67) | 10* |
By Age Range and Gender
| Age/Gender | Cases | Deaths | |
| 0-9 | 385 | ||
| 10-19 | 769 | ||
| 20-29 | 3,184 | (8) | |
| 30-39 | 4,550 | (17) | 1* |
| 40-49 | 4,696 | (30) | 3* |
| 50-59 | 4,687 | (85) | 8* |
| 60-69 | 3,569 | (191) | 12* |
| 70-79 | 2,424 | (296) | 14* |
| 80+ | 2,144 | (519) | 54* |
| Data not available | (70) | 9* | |
| Female | 13,936 | (581) | 55* |
| Male | 12,472 | (635) | 46* |
By Race and Ethnicity
| Race/Ethnicity | Cases | Deaths | |
| African-American (NH) | 9,147 | (503) | 33* |
| Asian (NH) | 547 | (41) | 3* |
| White (NH) | 5,873 | (503) | 52* |
| Hispanic | 4,892 | (81) | 4* |
| Other (NH) | 1,040 | (18) | |
| Data not available | 4,909 | (70) | 9* |
Here are important links with data on Coronavirus (COVID-19) numbers:
Here is a site to watch for information on Maryland cases: https://phpa.health.maryland.gov/Pages/Novel-coronavirus.aspx
Here is the site to keep an eye on in Howard County for updates: https://www.howardcountymd.gov/Departments/Health/MM-Alerts-and-Recalls
This is a good site to keep up to date with the latest coronavirus updates worldwide: (Worldometer) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ or (Johns Hopkins) https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html.
A local blog reader has put together this really great and informative Google spreadsheet with some great data. Be sure to give it a look daily: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19a2ACAQVz_Vi2UIcD-byZXKttTmUd8js6-kd3qLO-Ac/edit#gid=280098391
Scott E
Note: Daily updates going forward will happen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (unless something significant needs to be reported on the other days) during the week. Weekend updates will continue. I decided to do an update today because it was the final day of the month.
