An additional 536 COVID-19 cases reported Tuesday bring Maryland closer to joining the handful of states that have passed the 10,000-case mark.
Maryland's Department of Health has reported more than 7,000 cases since the start of April. Of the 9,472 cases confirmed so far, 302 patients have died and 2,122 have been hospitalized.
A family member cries, wearing a mask for protection, during a memorial service for the pastor of the Shining Star Freewill Baptist church Bishop James N. Flowers Jr, at the City Hall in Seat Pleasant, Maryland on Monday. Maryland had its deadliest day for coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.The state began releasing information on the racial and ethnic backgrounds of diagnosed patients in the last week, numbers that underline the racial disparities seen in other states across the country.
Similar trends have been noted in Louisiana and Missouri. Last week, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said about 70 percent of his state's COVID-19 deaths were black Americans, and Dr. Fredrick Echols with the City of St. Louis Department of Health said all of the city's COVID-19 deaths on or before April 8 were black Americans.
While Maryland and other states are still seeing spikes in new cases and deaths, some states along the East and West coasts are entering a plateau, paving the way for governors to begin making plans to reopen their state economies. Leading that charge is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who acknowledged the difficult balance of lifting stay-at-home orders while keeping residents safe.
"This is not a light switch that we can just flick on and everything goes back to normal," Cuomo said Monday in a statement announcing the multi-state effort.
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