{"id":26712,"date":"2020-07-08T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T23:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26712"},"modified":"2020-07-08T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T23:44:49","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26712","title":{"rendered":"State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SACRAMENTO \u2013\u00a0The California Department of Public Health today announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>California&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fcovid19.ca.gov-252Froadmap-2Dcounties-252F-26data-3D02-257C01-257CKate.Folmar-2540chhs.ca.gov-257C45aefcb9a85a4a04e41608d82367a70c-257C265c2dcd2a6e43aab2e826421a8c8526-257C0-257C0-257C637298275384010850-26sdata-3DSC2Qo4VWmAIfO688U0qyJOXNAi6AuaG7IJTL-252FbMYQZ0-253D-26reserved-3D0&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=Lr0a7ed3egkbwePCNW4ROg&amp;r=A8VAk1UqlhJEq2Og-b-nDxDHMjfghjmh7lKv268JP9I&amp;m=0-fQAzjC9eOWmTF9ENo1Ymhh7_-ZuWq8Erlxu5oamn8&amp;s=FV8AqBFeG3sKI2GzFjZlcgr06crxY8eLfHvGfKqIbo0&amp;e=\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u%3Dhttps-3A__gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fcovid19.ca.gov-252Froadmap-2Dcounties-252F-26data-3D02-257C01-257CKate.Folmar-2540chhs.ca.gov-257C45aefcb9a85a4a04e41608d82367a70c-257C265c2dcd2a6e43aab2e826421a8c8526-257C0-257C0-257C637298275384010850-26sdata-3DSC2Qo4VWmAIfO688U0qyJOXNAi6AuaG7IJTL-252FbMYQZ0-253D-26reserved-3D0%26d%3DDwMGaQ%26c%3DLr0a7ed3egkbwePCNW4ROg%26r%3DA8VAk1UqlhJEq2Og-b-nDxDHMjfghjmh7lKv268JP9I%26m%3D0-fQAzjC9eOWmTF9ENo1Ymhh7_-ZuWq8Erlxu5oamn8%26s%3DFV8AqBFeG3sKI2GzFjZlcgr06crxY8eLfHvGfKqIbo0%26e%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594336548798000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF7yjRzcLdUNwRQo4Od3DZ9sCqFwg\">positivity rate\u00a0<\/a>\u2013\u00a0a key indicator of community spread\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is trending upward in the 14-day average.<\/li>\n<li>Hospitalization rates are also trending upward in the 14-day average.<\/li>\n<li>Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed, and the 7-day average more accurately describes trends in number of cases. The\u00a07-day average number of new cases is 8,116 per day. The 7-day average from the week prior was 6,062.\u00a0California has 289,468 confirmed cases to date.\u00a0NOTE: Today\u2019s case number includes a backlog reported from laboratories in Los Angeles County.<\/li>\n<li>There have been 4,996,175 tests conducted in California.\u00a0This represents an increase of 99,805<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>tests over the prior 24-hour reporting period.\u00a0As 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.<\/li>\n<li>There have been\u00a06,562\u00a0COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-26712","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\/26712","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=26712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26713,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712\/revisions\/26713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}