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Maryland COVID testing positivity soars to pandemic high (28.56%) as (Gov.) Hogan announces omicron now driving hospitalizations
BALTIMORE SUN ^ | JAN 05, 2022 | ALEX MANN

Posted on 01/05/2022 10:26:09 AM PST by BeauBo

The average proportion of COVID-19 tests in Maryland which are coming back positive, 28.56%, is higher than at any point during the coronavirus pandemic, the state health department reported Wednesday...

Hospitals are caring for some 3,118 coronavirus patients, after eclipsing 3,000 Tuesday for the first time throughout the pandemic, according to the health department.

Hogan, speaking at the top of the Board of Public Works meeting Wednesday morning, said that data from the University of Maryland Medical System found that 74% of its COVID-19 patients over the last 30 days were not vaccinated, while 24% had completed a two-dose course or gotten the single-shot inoculation.

About 2% of the patients hospitalized over that time frame had gotten their booster shot...

Some 88.5% of recent coronavirus samples sent for further lab analysis were found to be the omicron variant, Hogan said. And of the samples of patients who were hospitalized, about 91% were determined to be omicron, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: hospitalization; maryland; omicron
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Still climbing. Maryland should be among the early places where the omicron wave starts to crest.

Keeping an eye on them...

1 posted on 01/05/2022 10:26:09 AM PST by BeauBo
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Are they patients in the hospital because of COVID or are the patients in the hospital who happen to have COVID?

Huge difference. Tone of article suggests that former but I have my doubts.

2 posted on 01/05/2022 10:28:49 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: BeauBo

So obvious what it happening with the majority of these cases:

1) wake up with the sniffles
2) freak out and go get tested
3) test positive (all tests are positive)
4) Rush to hospital screaming for life
5) Hospital admits idiot, gives them tissue for runny nose, collects $$ from fed gov, sends idiot home.


3 posted on 01/05/2022 10:29:00 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: BeauBo

Oh, please.


4 posted on 01/05/2022 10:29:15 AM PST by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: BeauBo

All. According. To. Plan.


5 posted on 01/05/2022 10:29:48 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: BeauBo

BS!!!!!!!!!!

How are they testing for Omnicron?!?!?!?!?

The PCR test?!?!?!?

The PCR test is LIE. It CANNOT tell if you are sick or not

THIS IS NOTHING BUT A LIE.......PERIOD!!!


6 posted on 01/05/2022 10:31:00 AM PST by afchief
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I recently had Omicron. How did I know? I woke up with body aches, feeling totally crappy and my head was all stuffed up. I was coughing a bit, but not much. Funny thing was no fever.

I grabbed some OJ, mixed it with water, drank it and went back to bed. I was in bed for two days. Drank plenty of water, ate plenty of soup and slept. On day three, I was fine. No testing needed.


7 posted on 01/05/2022 10:39:44 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

There’s no valid test for Covid. There’s no valid test for Omicron. Seasonal illnesses denied any treatment at all if ‘diagnosed’ with an invalid Covid test will result in additional hospitalizations. I can’t believe they are firing up the old plandemic juke box again.


8 posted on 01/05/2022 10:39:46 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Jonny7797

These establishment hospitals are the sleaziest thieves. I take it personal when they RIP OFF Uncle Sam because THAT IS MY MONEY!!


9 posted on 01/05/2022 10:39:47 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: afchief

They were supposed to stop using the PCR so Bill Gates and George SOros’s new testing company would take over. I’m not making that up about Soros and Gates, the most toxic names that come to mind were supposed to replace the fake ‘pcr’ test.


10 posted on 01/05/2022 10:41:28 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: BeauBo

It is increasing, but you also have to understand how the rate is calculated. The MD government rate is a seven-day average, not a daily tally. They also do not remove multiple testing results from the same individual. If you want the actual rate of positivity per person, check out the Johns Hopkins number.

For instance, today:

MD gov - 27.44%
JH - 5.69%

I believe this may reflect what the CDC admitted last week, that PCR testing can detect virus protein fragments from an infection up to 12 weeks prior to the test.

My (un)educated guess is that many people are sick with other common winter respiratory colds and flu, but are still getting a positive covid result, but it’s not actually SARS-CoV-2 active infection, but just cell debris from a previous infection.


11 posted on 01/05/2022 10:44:47 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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Maryland finally fixed its reporting. Their daily Covid death counts are nudging up towards the Jan 2021 highs.

And you guys can put the whole with and of stuff aside. If an 85 yr old man has prostate cancer in situ, and tests Covid positive, then yes, he has the mother of all comorbidities.

But when he is still coughing and his blood oxygen level is cratering and he dies, he died OF, not with, despite the idle prostate cancer. Put that hand waving stuff to bed.

A car accident guy comes in and his blood oxygen is not falling, he tests positive, and his injuries kill him, with blood oxy showing no signs of avalanching Covid effects, then he’s not going to be listed as a Covid death. So just stop. These numbers are pretty good. And most important, they match the curves of Excess Deaths.

Lastly, when you are sequencing samples and seeing 90%+ Omicron, and your Covid death counts are ramping up, then you can put the Omicron is mild crap to bed, too.


12 posted on 01/05/2022 10:46:51 AM PST by Owen
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I’m here in Maryland and it seems like half the damn state has the China Virus. But nobody seems to be dying....


13 posted on 01/05/2022 10:49:13 AM PST by bort
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To: Jonny7797

My local paper had a article from a nearby Children’s Hospital begging parents to stop going to the ER of their kid has a runny nose, etc. They are swamped with minor colds or Coof cases only to send them home.


14 posted on 01/05/2022 10:52:35 AM PST by matt04 ( )
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Maryland’s death count yesterday was 48, highest since January 2021. And rising.


15 posted on 01/05/2022 10:53:27 AM PST by Owen
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To: Owen

There’s no way they’re sequencing all positive individuals.

PS You are a fear mongering coward. Hide in your basement until you die.


16 posted on 01/05/2022 10:53:29 AM PST by EEGator
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To: BeauBo

17 posted on 01/05/2022 10:53:44 AM PST by Trillian
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To: BeauBo

Stop staring at me!


18 posted on 01/05/2022 10:59:10 AM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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Look, I know people want to protect their precious narrative of it’s no big deal. But it IS a big deal under the following conditions.

1) You’re old. Repeat. You’re old. Forget the comorbidity stuff. Nearly everyone old has one. 77% of old have hypertension. Add onto that everything else. No reason to say old plus comorbidities. Just say old.

2) The common cold will not relentlessly destroy blood oxygen level, monitored carefully in the hospital. An oldster tests positive and their blood oxygen level is cratering, they are in big trouble. It ain’t a headcold. You think it’s the common cold if you’re young. It can be raging Omicron and if you’re young you won’t know the difference. But the next old person you pass on the sidewalk you might kill.

3) Learn to study the Excess Deaths page. It’s the gold standard. And stop worrying about vax vs unvaxed. After a few months unboosted, they look the same to Omicron.


19 posted on 01/05/2022 10:59:11 AM PST by Owen
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To: EEGator

Every day, just about, you make my day.

;D


20 posted on 01/05/2022 11:00:41 AM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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