{"id":45918,"date":"2022-03-10T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45918"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:28:09","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45918","title":{"rendered":"State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SACRAMENTO \u2013 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!nL1WBDeFykLpXUk3QoJtp0MV4QiS41ZIgNDJtFi8wX-OpNtuPyw9ciBCz-6NmpDUnT6F6RRFtg$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!nL1WBDeFykLpXUk3QoJtp0MV4QiS41ZIgNDJtFi8wX-OpNtuPyw9ciBCz-6NmpDUnT6F6RRFtg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1647033501628000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ASGJPVCZWb_MiLzPABkHt\">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;\">Rates of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are highest among unvaccinated individuals and lowest among boosted individuals. This is true for all age groups.\u00a0See additional data for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!nL1WBDeFykLpXUk3QoJtp0MV4QiS41ZIgNDJtFi8wX-OpNtuPyw9ciBCz-6NmpDUnT4Snnt-Mw$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!nL1WBDeFykLpXUk3QoJtp0MV4QiS41ZIgNDJtFi8wX-OpNtuPyw9ciBCz-6NmpDUnT4Snnt-Mw$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1647033501628000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3HzqvVD4N1GCyCH1C0Rf1E\">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:1726946313116450955&amp;th=17f75885a37a008b&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-OL137UGHrJXLnLGYIM1sXb0RwMj80m6SBShSdJbA9Prqg5EfbjzFF67GF5E8OG8w6E-DjpJRe8JXwWEIQ9CoAKA49_2ZafJqTOdZV9P9EGOBTh3MDv2O4UAo&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">72,069,472 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">83.4% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">36,459\u00a0people 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 8,422,875 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is 4,140 (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 5.4 times more likely to get COVID-19\u00a0than boosted individuals\u00a0(February 14, 2022 \u2013 February 20, 2022).<\/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 1.9% (average rate over 7 days).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><br \/>\nHospitalizations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 2,796 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 516 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people\u00a0are 8.9 times more likely to be hospitalized\u00a0than boosted individuals (February 14, 2022 \u2013 February 20, 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 86,185 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 claims the lives of 126 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 16.6 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (February 7, 2022 \u2013 February 13, 2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2013 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-45918","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\/45918","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=45918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45919,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45918\/revisions\/45919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}