{"id":47057,"date":"2022-04-08T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T22:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47057"},"modified":"2022-04-08T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T22:56:28","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-596","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47057","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!kj0Z98tfFogbXlkD4JHIOlkCsqZtbP6-DCGiPayAiO33sOFDH6VwwH99-W3h45tS1B5ZS39qug$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!kj0Z98tfFogbXlkD4JHIOlkCsqZtbP6-DCGiPayAiO33sOFDH6VwwH99-W3h45tS1B5ZS39qug$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1649543873572000&amp;usg=AOvVaw354qtBmf7n1fkUoRoCMJVu\">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!kj0Z98tfFogbXlkD4JHIOlkCsqZtbP6-DCGiPayAiO33sOFDH6VwwH99-W3h45tS1B50bUUfCQ$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!kj0Z98tfFogbXlkD4JHIOlkCsqZtbP6-DCGiPayAiO33sOFDH6VwwH99-W3h45tS1B50bUUfCQ$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1649543873572000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3LzTgyidJuoE1upnEZJsS6\">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:1729581501052128305&amp;th=1800b536244c8c31&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ9e4saaCcQZs62CyA_vsF0wd1gG35PIn0egcAgTCUkAW6vKS_kE1_NYyNj8Riglp4fWG2CcicbZefSm64g3dOT_e9JiwZYxGi-OVku0dqVmhwGNUHQGUslECWs&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;\">73,272,145 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;\">59,552\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 8,513,771 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is 2,082 (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 3.6 times more likely to get COVID-19\u00a0than boosted individuals\u00a0(March 14, 2022 \u2013 March 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 1.7% (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 1,098 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 190 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people\u00a0are 6.5 times more likely to be hospitalized\u00a0than boosted individuals (March 14, 2022 \u2013 March 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 88,557 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 claims the lives of 32 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 13.7 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (March 7, 2022 \u2013 March 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-47057","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\/47057","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=47057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47058,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47057\/revisions\/47058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}