{"id":56970,"date":"2023-03-09T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56970"},"modified":"2023-03-09T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:06:04","slug":"covid-19-updates-for-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56970","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Updates for March 9"},"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 in California. The 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!1VZwPRcvNhXTDw8DBMxD8_ExComu3IZCxRoODbd1mU4lGDc19isxOyF3af-mTp0pQeRuc4imJ1_0JekDBabssyCr4SfJcQ1h29cHuw$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!1VZwPRcvNhXTDw8DBMxD8_ExComu3IZCxRoODbd1mU4lGDc19isxOyF3af-mTp0pQeRuc4imJ1_0JekDBabssyCr4SfJcQ1h29cHuw$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1678482621730000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1rU76aZ7nna9HE9_4FjdyB\">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. See additional data for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!1VZwPRcvNhXTDw8DBMxD8_ExComu3IZCxRoODbd1mU4lGDc19isxOyF3af-mTp0pQeRuc4imJ1_0JekDBabssyCr4SfJcQ0rglnAbw$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!1VZwPRcvNhXTDw8DBMxD8_ExComu3IZCxRoODbd1mU4lGDc19isxOyF3af-mTp0pQeRuc4imJ1_0JekDBabssyCr4SfJcQ0rglnAbw$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1678482621730000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3aqQT21KZeXeB9y1Pt2svb\">unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations, and deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\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:1759925992579462173&amp;th=186c835da2acf41d&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_05YvSgLpn3cHCf7LSJNbyo99fNAciM5355YJSLIKGkfD5YcDPkxYGdH9KjyGgqVL6dOvVOBQh704X2_bWI2DVaMPeo0KWmEr0AgfX547yN699qr2uQD-OG44&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>88,280,319 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li>72.7% of the population has been vaccinated with a primary series.<\/li>\n<li>8,995 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 11,146,227 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s average case count is 2,612 (average daily case count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li>During January 2023, unvaccinated people were 2.6 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 5.9% (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 2,375 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li>There are 279 ICU patients statewide.<\/li>\n<li>During January 2023, unvaccinated people were 2.6 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;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>There have been 100,640 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 claims the lives of 17 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).<\/li>\n<li>During January 2023, unvaccinated people were 2.9 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<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>COVID-19 Guidance Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, CDPH announced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/OPA\/Pages\/NR23-014.aspx\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/OPA\/Pages\/NR23-014.aspx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1678482621730000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0l8S9b3cNjpue6CXnsbVhI\">updates to several state public health officer orders<\/a>\u00a0that have guided Californians on how to best protect themselves and their families throughout the pandemic. Critical tools to fight COVID-19 remain available to everyone at low or no cost. This includes access to COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Your Actions Save Lives \u2013 How You Can Help Slow the Spread<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protect yourself, family, friends, and community with prevention measures and information.<\/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-56970","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\/56970","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=56970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56971,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56970\/revisions\/56971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}