MD COVID-19 Master Tracker: Cases, Deaths, and Hospitalizations in Maryland

Archived records covering Maryland's COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through October 2025. The dataset aggregates cases, tests, positivity rates, hospitalizations, and confirmed and probable deaths across multiple demographic and geographic dimensions. It is provided by the State of Maryland via the Socrata platform and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing demographic disparities in COVID-19 mortality using pDeath0to9, pDeath20to29, pDeathALLE, and pDeathSOME columns.
• Tracking county-level outbreak severity over time by joining deathCARR, pDeathCALV, pDeathHARF, and pDeathWICO with date fields.
• Modeling hospitalization pressure by correlating pedicuhospitalizations, under18, and 65plus columns with case counts.
• Distinguishing between confirmed and probable death reporting trends using pDeaths, deathsDelta, and confirmed death columns.

Strengths

• Covers a significant time span from March 2020 to October 2025.
• Includes granular breakdowns for deaths by county, age, gender, and race/ethnicity, as suggested by column names like pDeathSTMA and pDeathGenUnkn.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, and XML.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

State of Maryland (opendata.maryland.gov)

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from state public health reporting systems.

Time Range

March 2020 through October 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 17:19:54; freshness should be verified as this is an archived dataset.

Geography

State of Maryland, United States, with county-level breakdowns.