{"id":53918,"date":"2022-10-27T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T01:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53918"},"modified":"2022-10-27T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T01:23:38","slug":"state-officials-announce-latest-covid-19-facts-645","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53918","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!yVNg0bmpRqvfwqQ8WxRYZ-7_w-SX9m1jAn0P4TmlPYvh3jFRbMWMaK-XRhF1Y9-IohbgJO64ZXMrU7JSvYxs5nPHa9YAOiiNNFgPVg$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/equity\/__;!!AvL6XA!yVNg0bmpRqvfwqQ8WxRYZ-7_w-SX9m1jAn0P4TmlPYvh3jFRbMWMaK-XRhF1Y9-IohbgJO64ZXMrU7JSvYxs5nPHa9YAOiiNNFgPVg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1666986046142000&amp;usg=AOvVaw24kEjmA5kFSzs5LYsDHfw-\">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=1666986046142000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ZNQYSZiP0hDfLbKuxLTid\">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:1747870957399872252&amp;th=1841af60090a92fc&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_8Yl4_0vzNBBy_88IxYtaWMioitAcubhfdDJK7Zf83z8btiwX-VQseXhinGT6UDvzA30sH-CimFcqiUE8TscyGTEiVKpLUn20kgIaJ63JDRUNS-ufRbC1pIm8&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>83,568,756 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li>72.4% of the population has been vaccinated with a primary series.<\/li>\n<li>81,611 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 10,449,008 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s average case count is 2,456 (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 4.1% (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 1,674 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li>There are 192 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 96,068 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 claims the lives of 15 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<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-53918","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\/53918","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=53918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53919,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53918\/revisions\/53919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}