{"id":43392,"date":"2021-12-27T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43392"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:56:33","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43392","title":{"rendered":"State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SACRAMENTO &#8211; Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19 and updates on the state\u2019s pandemic response.\u00a0The most up to date data is available on the state\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!g5Pb3-fNN-u7a1Q1GywhtidXgE3TKZ7VP0sqh5iwa2J7fc6fgwEgxdEjK7FL_cvYgN17MMSrPw$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!g5Pb3-fNN-u7a1Q1GywhtidXgE3TKZ7VP0sqh5iwa2J7fc6fgwEgxdEjK7FL_cvYgN17MMSrPw$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1640724929635000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ola-0Lckp14txCzPczpPk\">COVID-19 data dashboard<\/a>. *<strong>NOTE<\/strong>: Data for cases, deaths and testing was not reported over the holiday weekend. It will be updated in tomorrow&#8217;s news release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Statewide COVID-19 Data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are largely occurring among unvaccinated populations. See the data for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!g5Pb3-fNN-u7a1Q1GywhtidXgE3TKZ7VP0sqh5iwa2J7fc6fgwEgxdEjK7FL_cvYgN1sqCRmtQ$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!g5Pb3-fNN-u7a1Q1GywhtidXgE3TKZ7VP0sqh5iwa2J7fc6fgwEgxdEjK7FL_cvYgN1sqCRmtQ$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1640724929635000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1PlNaBBOt9Bv_5MMSTnlIf\">unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations and deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Unvaccinated people were\u00a0<strong>7.6 times more likely to get COVID-19<\/strong>\u00a0(data from December 2, 2021 to December 8, 2021).<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated people were\u00a0<strong>11.7 times more likely to be hospitalized<\/strong>\u00a0with COVID-19 (data from November 25, 2021 to December 1, 2021).<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated people were\u00a0<strong>14.8 times more likely to die<\/strong>\u00a0from COVID-19 (data from November 18, 2021 to November 24, 2021).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=cb7df8f6cd&amp;attid=0.2&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1720333646406812980&amp;th=17dfda56313b0534&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ8vhvMuw1rBBj8aJFq7NYJpK3jmY8FgPE2bMrSjrfAiyA64clw2U1XIRDmtLx3L9lLnWhesT7MwlCunpUoRH7He0PcF8uBa8zr0Ca3Yf7DobXN-MJbGoGIa5Bs&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">63,910,607 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">78.9% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">167,824 people a day are receiving COVID-19 vaccination (average daily dose count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Cases<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California has 4,990,016* confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is 6,176* (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Testing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The testing positivity rate is 5.4%* (average rate over 7 days).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hospitalizations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 4,401 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 1,041 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There have been 75,461* COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 claims the lives of 43* Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO &#8211; Today, the California Department&#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-43392","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\/43392","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=43392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43393,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43392\/revisions\/43393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}