The coronavirus is blamed for nearly two-dozen more deaths in Maryland. The state health department reports 20 additional deaths, over 12-hundred new cases and a seven-day positivity rate that’s down slightly to five-point-one-five-percent. The DOH also announced that 44 fewer people are hospitalized with the virus, while 300 are occupying ICU beds. Also, more than 75-thousand additional vaccine doses have been administered and close to 29-percent of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated against the virus.