{"id":43994,"date":"2022-01-21T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43994"},"modified":"2022-01-21T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T05:07:07","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43994","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!m7K9j7TqxuNrUWNVm0EbDt2FZYQhMTGWBh8YhXeYOmTM8SLeoepY8CU6o-qz1dq23VSTmJwfyA$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!m7K9j7TqxuNrUWNVm0EbDt2FZYQhMTGWBh8YhXeYOmTM8SLeoepY8CU6o-qz1dq23VSTmJwfyA$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642912193573000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ZwnvrLN5T4V27GbAiqNnn\">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;\">The risk of infection, hospitalization and death is highest among unvaccinated populations. See the data for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!m7K9j7TqxuNrUWNVm0EbDt2FZYQhMTGWBh8YhXeYOmTM8SLeoepY8CU6o-qz1dq23VTaZFuCJw$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!m7K9j7TqxuNrUWNVm0EbDt2FZYQhMTGWBh8YhXeYOmTM8SLeoepY8CU6o-qz1dq23VTaZFuCJw$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642912193573000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2dRiDF3nqgv4h_lZJ9nBLr\">unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations and deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\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:1722598360630042098&amp;th=17e7e61510061df2&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ9cZc_5k3FpqCD9wTuPbEnQA1RNedfw2XMKV7IqFTqELdTzkHus3Ot02UAEB81sBDtmBSoKEHJNWD3FDzbZG8Qkr-CEVRAgko1glWbSX7POfpM3TN2k079awT0&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">68,244,807 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">81.3% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">147,684 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 7,123,571 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is 106,968 (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Testing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The testing positivity rate is 21.2% (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 15,383 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 2,485 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people were 6.0 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 (data from December 27, 2021 to January 2, 2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There have been 77,722 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<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people were 17.8 times more likely to die from COVID-19 (data from December 20, 2021 to December 26, 2021).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-43994","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\/43994","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=43994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43995,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994\/revisions\/43995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}