The Los Angeles Post

State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts

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SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19 and updates on the state’s pandemic response. The most up to date data is available on the state’s COVID-19 data dashboard.

Due to a technical issue, vaccine data is incomplete today. We will make note of it in the daily news release when corrected.

Statewide COVID-19 Data

Rates of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are highest among unvaccinated individuals and lowest among boosted individuals. This is true for all age groups. See additional data for unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

Vaccinations

  • 72,627,423 total vaccines administered.
  • 83.8% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.
  • 19,989 people a day are receiving COVID-19 vaccination (average daily dose count over 7 days).

 

Cases

  • California has 8,484,309 confirmed cases to date.
  • Today’s average case count is 1,985 (average daily case count over 7 days).
  • Unvaccinated people are 4.4 times more likely to get COVID-19 than boosted individuals (February 28, 2022 – March 6, 2022).

 

Testing

  • The testing positivity rate is 1.3% (average rate over 7 days).


Hospitalizations

  • There are 1,414 hospitalizations statewide.
  • There are 264 ICU patients statewide.
  • Unvaccinated people are 8.5 times more likely to be hospitalized than boosted individuals (February 28, 2022 – March 6, 2022).

 

Deaths

  • There have been 87,956 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
  • COVID-19 claims the lives of 53 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).
  • Unvaccinated people are 13.8 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (February 21, 2022 – February 27, 2022).