{"id":53685,"date":"2022-10-20T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53685"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:06:05","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53685","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\/equity\/__;!!AvL6XA!1EbvWXft2AMhMttrKAXuS2s0NaoNdy4IY94_J8eXQfvliBrahhtgqNcVG1ml-JCiA-b-7NflxA_TC0e7Rq8Tt8LcWo9IQgR-E9EIoQ$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/equity\/__;!!AvL6XA!1EbvWXft2AMhMttrKAXuS2s0NaoNdy4IY94_J8eXQfvliBrahhtgqNcVG1ml-JCiA-b-7NflxA_TC0e7Rq8Tt8LcWo9IQgR-E9EIoQ$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1666382816414000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1gTHbHC10AXzcCZQTNenKj\">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:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/K-12-Guidance-2022-23-School-Year.aspx#postvax-status\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/K-12-Guidance-2022-23-School-Year.aspx%23postvax-status&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1666382816414000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0bC2plS7bLOE6xVA1vCA66\">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>82,974,516 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li>72.4% of the population has been vaccinated with a primary series.<\/li>\n<li>82,852 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 10,476,942 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s average case count is 2,580 (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li>During August 2022, unvaccinated people were 2.7 times more likely to get COVID-19 than people who were vaccinated with at least a primary series.<\/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 4.4% (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 1,617 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li>There are 210 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li>During August 2022, unvaccinated people were 3.0 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than people who were vaccinated with at least a primary series.<\/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 95,808 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 claims the lives of 21 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li>During August 2022, unvaccinated people were 3.3 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people who were vaccinated with at least a primary series.<\/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-53685","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\/53685","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=53685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53687,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685\/revisions\/53687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}