{"id":49311,"date":"2022-06-10T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49311"},"modified":"2022-06-10T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:15:17","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49311","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!xj5E57cCPAaYW9A6aDWMxFVhqUP5u5AA4w8zrTqMKFtmyFpafST2d3Bd9DF3Z4DXxtD5wrs9LynugcRkhbsXA2fp6BAqlxW8Ps_PKg$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!xj5E57cCPAaYW9A6aDWMxFVhqUP5u5AA4w8zrTqMKFtmyFpafST2d3Bd9DF3Z4DXxtD5wrs9LynugcRkhbsXA2fp6BAqlxW8Ps_PKg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1654981764600000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2T9hAnyFypt6ZauQtYR6UA\">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!xj5E57cCPAaYW9A6aDWMxFVhqUP5u5AA4w8zrTqMKFtmyFpafST2d3Bd9DF3Z4DXxtD5wrs9LynugcRkhbsXA2fp6BAqlxXqIbGkQQ$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!xj5E57cCPAaYW9A6aDWMxFVhqUP5u5AA4w8zrTqMKFtmyFpafST2d3Bd9DF3Z4DXxtD5wrs9LynugcRkhbsXA2fp6BAqlxXqIbGkQQ$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1654981764601000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3YR7PgaaFX0oAxgteYhsOY\">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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>76,821,177 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li>83.7% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/li>\n<li>46,090 people 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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>California has 9,106,031 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s average case count is 13,903 (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated people are 5.0 times more likely to get COVID-19\u00a0than boosted individuals\u00a0(May 16, 2022 \u2013 May 22, 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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>The testing positivity rate is 8.6% (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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>There are 2,687 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li>There are 294 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated people\u00a0are 7.4 times more likely to be hospitalized than boosted individuals (May 16, 2022 \u2013 May 22, 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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>There have been 91,006 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 claims the lives of 14 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li>Unvaccinated people are 8.2 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (May 9, 2022 \u2013 May 15, 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-49311","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\/49311","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=49311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49312,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49311\/revisions\/49312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}