Vaccine, testing and treatment data will continue to be updated weekly, as one part of the larger public health puzzle in Maryland, but the main dashboard is no longer available, officials said in a statement.
“These changes reflect the new phase of covid-19 that we are in today,” Department of Health Secretary Laura Herrera Scott said. “We will continue to actively monitor trends related to covid-19 and offer robust information about covid-19 on our new webpages.”that officials hope will provide better insight into the trajectory of the virus than case rates.
New infections can still be found online, but officials say hospitalizations and death as well as emergency department and urgent care visits are more telling metrics as most people use at-home tests to determine if they are positive. “Since we have really shifted our focus to severe outcomes and deaths from covid-19 those are the trends we really want to keep and eye on to make sure we’re not seeing major changes,” said Elena Diskin, vaccine-preventable disease and respiratory disease program manager in the Office of Epidemiology.percent positivity, testing data, outbreaks and MIS-C case information from the dashboard.