{"id":26568,"date":"2020-07-05T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26568"},"modified":"2020-07-05T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T21:13:53","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26568","title":{"rendered":"State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2013\u00a0The California Department of Public Health today announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19. California&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__covid19.ca.gov_roadmap-2Dcounties_&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=Lr0a7ed3egkbwePCNW4ROg&amp;r=lxj9wEtqoEBAma-Tvya2HHzMHlIs09hc7DK0RmkepS4&amp;m=a4ATwpJuCwGkMf2T1zuKEAyMdNrBTfgLDNmawLvBPRE&amp;s=YluP8gSqydRFNH7_z0FpDctavutw-ZgGC4XqITz7ar0&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u%3Dhttps-3A__covid19.ca.gov_roadmap-2Dcounties_%26d%3DDwMGaQ%26c%3DLr0a7ed3egkbwePCNW4ROg%26r%3Dlxj9wEtqoEBAma-Tvya2HHzMHlIs09hc7DK0RmkepS4%26m%3Da4ATwpJuCwGkMf2T1zuKEAyMdNrBTfgLDNmawLvBPRE%26s%3DYluP8gSqydRFNH7_z0FpDctavutw-ZgGC4XqITz7ar0%26e%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594068249770000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE8bJppQXdyO-n0jcWDjUxR-kVchA\">positivity rate\u00a0<\/a>\u2013\u00a0a key indicator of community spread\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is trending upward in the 14-day average. Hospitalization rates are also trending upward in the 14-day average.\u00a0California has 260,155* confirmed cases to date. Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed, as reported below in the case of Los Angeles County for the next few days.\u00a0There have been\u00a04,680,138\u00a0tests\u00a0conducted in California. As testing capacity continues to increase across the state, an increase in the number of positive cases has been\u00a0expected \u2013 increasing the importance of positivity rates to find signs of community spread. There have been\u00a06,331\u00a0COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><b>*Los Angeles County Data Processing<\/b><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is making improvements to its data processing systems beginning today. As a result, testing data from Los Angeles County will not be included in statewide totals for the next few days. The county will continue to collect data during this time and it will be reported by the state early next week.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_6485341253404399218xmsonormal\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"m_6485341253404399218Picture_x0020_1\" class=\"CToWUd a6T\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=cb7df8f6cd&amp;attid=0.2&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1671407619254620236&amp;th=1732085fcc8d904c&amp;view=fimg&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ9b8y-ovtL3kjktAIwPOaugQj8ZLulCx3Tc3q4vw_uYnoUXr_to_SsZglI8L062IKDbf9A34nOumh9PSvTHAB9_KEKuD-1yWFDYrXUF3bVdwcOf6OA-co_SVt4&amp;disp=emb\" alt=\"A screenshot of a cell phone\n\nDescription automatically generated\" width=\"696\" height=\"521\" border=\"0\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" \/><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_6485341253404399218xmsonormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2013\u00a0The California Department of Public&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}