COVID-19

Maryland Gov. Hogan coronavirus update : death rate triples in a single month

It’s Tuesday, Dec. 1, and as Maryland reports its 200,000th case of the coronavirus, the state has seen its death rate from the virus triple over the past month.

As of Dec. 1, an average of 27 Marylanders were dying every day from COVID-19. That’s more than three times the rate just a month earlier on Nov. 1. Those deaths also include the DMV’s first fatal case of the coronavirus in someone under the age of 10, announced in Maryland on Monday.

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