{"id":26611,"date":"2020-07-06T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26611"},"modified":"2020-07-06T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:53:16","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26611","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=aw3CrdE1eKq-LTZ6WymApaFxlTR9nZMUwTsqHbMrt5Y&amp;s=vXfMmPkopBzVX-r33WwMzYNc70Who3P362Rc5HNln1E&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%3Daw3CrdE1eKq-LTZ6WymApaFxlTR9nZMUwTsqHbMrt5Y%26s%3DvXfMmPkopBzVX-r33WwMzYNc70Who3P362Rc5HNln1E%26e%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594154008943000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGuE-STcyv4Mr8F5gouHOrFQIsowg\">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 271,684* 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.\u00a0There have been 4,793,353 tests conducted 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\u00a06,337\u00a0COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"m_7895541802558721081Picture_x0020_2\" 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:1671501030375439147&amp;th=17325d54c53a3b2b&amp;view=fimg&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_0d2CzEx6aGT-NNhByisoLaxeOcy4YdUU5UZUqUtIbMOOa4m9ESMO7v_6K32SgN_q8bZ6oG6GOoDntYevJCRGyqsRQ3sGqHVEob2u9QCkAhqWl8SGxCGM9vy0&amp;disp=emb\" alt=\"A screenshot of a cell phone\n\nDescription automatically generated\" width=\"671\" height=\"502\" border=\"0\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" \/><\/p>\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-26611","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\/26611","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=26611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26612,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions\/26612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}