{"id":28740,"date":"2020-10-21T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28740"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:19:24","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28740","title":{"rendered":"State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SACRAMENTO \u2013\u00a0The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>California has 877,784 confirmed cases to date.\u00a0Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed.<\/li>\n<li>There were 3,707 newly recorded confirmed cases Tuesday. Numbers do not represent true day-over-day change as these results include cases from prior to yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>The 7-day positivity rate is 2.6% and the 14-day positivity rate is 2.7%.<\/li>\n<li>There have been 17,293,139 tests conducted in California.\u00a0This represents an increase of 104,069 over the prior 24-hour reporting period.<\/li>\n<li>As case numbers continue to rise in California, the total number of individuals who will have serious outcomes will also increase. There have been 17,027 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Testing Turnaround Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The testing turnaround dashboard reports how long California patients are waiting for COVID-19 test results. California has worked to reduce testing turnaround times in recent weeks to help curb the spread of the virus. During the week of October 4 to October 10, the average time patients waited for test results was 1.2 days. During this same time period, 68 percent of patients received test results in 1 day and 93 percent received them within two days. 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As a result and until further notice, all four tiers in the Testing Prioritization Guidance originally dated July 14, 2020, will have equal priority for testing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2013\u00a0The California Department of Public&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28740","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=28740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28741,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28740\/revisions\/28741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}