{"id":46710,"date":"2022-03-29T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46710"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:35:13","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46710","title":{"rendered":"State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>SACRAMENTO<\/strong> \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!mU2vWE7XRanL0Qu3HfNE2wz_iPWHPxaZqRISaIddOXHnhSnLKvJ7H5pv_lcqrvNeQGD0isMTwQ$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!mU2vWE7XRanL0Qu3HfNE2wz_iPWHPxaZqRISaIddOXHnhSnLKvJ7H5pv_lcqrvNeQGD0isMTwQ$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1648670135951000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1C3In043R9DkuFyVBAxZNr\">COVID-19 data dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to a technical issue, vaccine data is incomplete today. We will make note of it in the daily news release when corrected.<\/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!mU2vWE7XRanL0Qu3HfNE2wz_iPWHPxaZqRISaIddOXHnhSnLKvJ7H5pv_lcqrvNeQGDJHre9Ow$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!mU2vWE7XRanL0Qu3HfNE2wz_iPWHPxaZqRISaIddOXHnhSnLKvJ7H5pv_lcqrvNeQGDJHre9Ow$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1648670135951000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2deqh94YqH_bemhzbiONUm\">unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations, and deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\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:1728665271046220482&amp;th=17fd73e7b843aac2&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ8HtewTYapaZyNpre-aO6CtDXTT42TeuOH18Dy7JxEj52c2kAzv_rjWTT4tbrzL84JA6WwWJFTKwSi9JDUi56ebDFlnwRr_ffdcw22jbgXDWlVjjxjHAnmuUxE&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">72,627,423 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">83.8% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19,989\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 8,484,309 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is 1,985 (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 4.4 times more likely to get COVID-19\u00a0than boosted individuals\u00a0(February 28, 2022 \u2013 March 6, 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 1.3% (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 1,414 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 264 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people\u00a0are 8.5 times more likely to be hospitalized\u00a0than boosted individuals (February 28, 2022 \u2013 March 6, 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 87,956 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 claims the lives of 53 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 13.8 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (February 21, 2022 \u2013 February 27, 2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\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-46710","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\/46710","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=46710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46711,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710\/revisions\/46711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}