New Case, Vaccination Rates In Silver Spring, Montgomery County

SILVER SPRING, MD — New coronavirus case rate data has been released in Silver Spring and Montgomery County in Maryland. As of Saturday, there have been at least 14,905 cases of COVID-19 in Silver Spring since the start of the pandemic, although the number is almost certainly higher, because the Maryland Department of Health only provided numbers for some of the city’s ZIP codes. Here is the ZIP code data available:

20815: 1401 cases
20901: 3086 cases
20902: 5549 cases
20903: 2840 cases
20912: 2029 cases

The Maryland Department of Health was able to provide vaccination data for the following ZIP codes in or near Silver Spring.

20901

• At least one dose: 26,670 (73.8%)
• Fully vaccinated: 24,546 (67.9%)

20902

• At least one dose: 38,186 (72.8%)
• Fully vaccinated: 35,198 (67.1%)

20903

• At least one dose: 16,437 (62.7%)
• Fully vaccinated: 14,528 (55.4%)

20904

• At least one dose: 41,604 (72.9%)
• Fully vaccinated: 38,026 (66.6%)

20905

• At least one dose: 13,633 (75.2%)
• Fully vaccinated: 12,849 (70.9%)

20906

• Received at least one dose: 54,124 people (77.1%)
• Fully vaccinated: 49,718 people (70.8%)

These numbers are roughly comparable to Montgomery County, where 784,572 people, or 74.6% of county residents, have received at least one dose, and 712,083 people, or 67.9%, are fully vaccinated, according to the county’s COVID-19 dashboard.

The county case rate continues to be significantly lower than its neighbors. According to the latest data, the county’s number of cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days is 54.2. By contrast, the District of Columbia’s rate is 100.6, Prince George’s County is 78.3, and Fairfax County in Virginia is 79.2.