{"id":43501,"date":"2021-12-30T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T04:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43501"},"modified":"2021-12-30T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T04:46:16","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43501","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!hXf1j-27F_sd8OPN0IVzti14prPjwCrKBM6Y8tg0nTJ3yN4lcN3yULbRCWsLSl2tRIa3UkNORg$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!hXf1j-27F_sd8OPN0IVzti14prPjwCrKBM6Y8tg0nTJ3yN4lcN3yULbRCWsLSl2tRIa3UkNORg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1641009710273000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2RlmBc9PPjx3b5WWCXr86p\">COVID-19 data dashboard<\/a>.<\/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!hXf1j-27F_sd8OPN0IVzti14prPjwCrKBM6Y8tg0nTJ3yN4lcN3yULbRCWsLSl2tRIb5tUArWg$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!hXf1j-27F_sd8OPN0IVzti14prPjwCrKBM6Y8tg0nTJ3yN4lcN3yULbRCWsLSl2tRIb5tUArWg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1641009710273000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0u_-bN86gHW5FTexadd28t\">unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations and deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Unvaccinated people were\u00a0<strong>5.2 times more likely to get COVID-19<\/strong>\u00a0(data from December 13, 2021 to December 19, 2021).<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated people were\u00a0<strong>14.5 times more likely to be hospitalized<\/strong>\u00a0with COVID-19 (data from December 6, 2021 to December 12, 2021).<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated people were\u00a0<strong>15.0 times more likely to die<\/strong>\u00a0from COVID-19 (data from November 29, 2021 to December 5, 2021).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=cb7df8f6cd&amp;attid=0.2&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1720628886838685543&amp;th=17e0e6db364baf67&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-ZpSmAMouM-g_Ls62UQBoV4ItxLCKsAAu6F6RuVisrAPitDr8ZGpoX-eBvWIqpTZkLLQUPJ3U2_o5GmrvbDoLPsAiSuFoiTR1YWE6GCSTsF2Sb6PmVdASkG5o&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">64,562,129 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">79.3% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">143,252 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 5,135,071 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is 12,877 (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 12.9% (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 5,516 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 1,194 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 75,738 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 claims the lives of 45 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-43501","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\/43501","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=43501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43502,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions\/43502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}