{"id":57084,"date":"2023-03-16T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57084"},"modified":"2023-03-16T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T22:01:46","slug":"covid-19-updates-for-march-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57084","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Updates for March 16"},"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!2W9aorLIuwMqN6LNSm-xdGU1fZjyEWI4prnfaVa18eLJt5z7bGlEs0DAJKc08s2CuK0NMlzACf-r5aq3EatibPPCjoXWJ5T9gqgBMg$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!2W9aorLIuwMqN6LNSm-xdGU1fZjyEWI4prnfaVa18eLJt5z7bGlEs0DAJKc08s2CuK0NMlzACf-r5aq3EatibPPCjoXWJ5T9gqgBMg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1679087930627000&amp;usg=AOvVaw171FVihxFcWZWkmlr0QyPh\">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!2W9aorLIuwMqN6LNSm-xdGU1fZjyEWI4prnfaVa18eLJt5z7bGlEs0DAJKc08s2CuK0NMlzACf-r5aq3EatibPPCjoXWJ5RgCh8vRw$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!2W9aorLIuwMqN6LNSm-xdGU1fZjyEWI4prnfaVa18eLJt5z7bGlEs0DAJKc08s2CuK0NMlzACf-r5aq3EatibPPCjoXWJ5RgCh8vRw$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1679087930627000&amp;usg=AOvVaw02K9VGnXlJ0MzXs44Becth\">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;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>88,344,968 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li>72.8% of the population has been vaccinated with a primary series.<\/li>\n<li>8,179 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 11,162,835 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s average case count is 2,295 (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 5.7% (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 2,093 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li>There are 252 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 100,799 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","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-57084","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\/57084","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=57084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57085,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084\/revisions\/57085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}