{"id":48317,"date":"2022-05-17T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48317"},"modified":"2022-05-17T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:30:43","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48317","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!y5yrZQZQ3hh_pZCy04UkYQVzmS7KkJ857DOjxD1mx8GCr7cLCfP4H7hTxVZgyBYziTWKpzRHzGYkn8DOxL9vzW6jp_ZHLNKQ5n4mew$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!y5yrZQZQ3hh_pZCy04UkYQVzmS7KkJ857DOjxD1mx8GCr7cLCfP4H7hTxVZgyBYziTWKpzRHzGYkn8DOxL9vzW6jp_ZHLNKQ5n4mew$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652901049923000&amp;usg=AOvVaw02hCf0DOfAgTXu2STsAg7F\">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!y5yrZQZQ3hh_pZCy04UkYQVzmS7KkJ857DOjxD1mx8GCr7cLCfP4H7hTxVZgyBYziTWKpzRHzGYkn8DOxL9vzW6jp_ZHLNKkgsZ12Q$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!y5yrZQZQ3hh_pZCy04UkYQVzmS7KkJ857DOjxD1mx8GCr7cLCfP4H7hTxVZgyBYziTWKpzRHzGYkn8DOxL9vzW6jp_ZHLNKkgsZ12Q$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652901049923000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3uZnwqt0iG44RDZuiu3CUe\">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:1733101749926527641&amp;th=180d36dbf3fa8299&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-_OJovx9dmNYd0e74EF8znXWw7zbU0E16f-MfJ13GGUVa629i58S-fB4uOF1s5pqk8w2EHbpyYFByxF-0d4cDNUXOEE6q463wh0fBQlNIlwv--ByDQrPJlaEQ&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;\">75,489,752 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;\">48,477\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 8,757,871 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is\u00a08,401\u00a0(average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 4.8 times more likely to get COVID-19\u00a0than boosted individuals\u00a0(April,18 2022 \u2013 April 24, 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 5.0% (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 1,527 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 182 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people\u00a0are 6.5 times more likely to be hospitalized\u00a0than boosted individuals (April,18 2022 \u2013 April 24, 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\u00a090,219\u00a0COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 claims the lives of 10 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 7.8 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (April 11, 2022 \u2013 April 17, 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-48317","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\/48317","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=48317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48318,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48317\/revisions\/48318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}