{"id":48807,"date":"2022-05-27T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48807"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:56:41","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48807","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!ziVo-ECKXW-8wn2sWNKiZLQCA3wqmapg-G0RIgEWz0YPX1Bab_Vta1kxfVgeS-MiFo-mktXE71WlfFT5zProw1YrqdBVcJYdJ4zzsw$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!ziVo-ECKXW-8wn2sWNKiZLQCA3wqmapg-G0RIgEWz0YPX1Bab_Vta1kxfVgeS-MiFo-mktXE71WlfFT5zProw1YrqdBVcJYdJ4zzsw$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653777346172000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Yfcae47rIYgnh7dV26Q4E\">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!ziVo-ECKXW-8wn2sWNKiZLQCA3wqmapg-G0RIgEWz0YPX1Bab_Vta1kxfVgeS-MiFo-mktXE71WlfFT5zProw1YrqdBVcJa_IUGegA$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!ziVo-ECKXW-8wn2sWNKiZLQCA3wqmapg-G0RIgEWz0YPX1Bab_Vta1kxfVgeS-MiFo-mktXE71WlfFT5zProw1YrqdBVcJa_IUGegA$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653777346173000&amp;usg=AOvVaw05GUjGjwddTAZNOxyU2use\">unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations, and deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">76,146,348 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">84.1% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">53,127\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 8,896,174 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s average case count is\u00a012,362\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(May 2, 2022 \u2013 May 8, 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 7.0% (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 2,056 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 244 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people\u00a0are 6.8 times more likely to be hospitalized\u00a0than boosted individuals (May 2, 2022 \u2013 May 8, 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\u00a090,612\u00a0COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 claims the lives of 9 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unvaccinated people are 10.1 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (April 25, 2022 \u2013 May 1, 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-48807","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\/48807","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=48807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48808,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48807\/revisions\/48808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}