{"id":57228,"date":"2023-03-23T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57228"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:04:52","slug":"covid-19-updates-for-march-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57228","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Updates for March 23"},"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 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!1vB2lizW-LicFSsWHeTItiRkGJbtrlB5jh9pqkUzvV4JOxjToEBFgCYwT8Srbayz6a9HO1VETbPwPWe6xHO7eTKZCMHR5O7FiJwprg$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/__;!!AvL6XA!1vB2lizW-LicFSsWHeTItiRkGJbtrlB5jh9pqkUzvV4JOxjToEBFgCYwT8Srbayz6a9HO1VETbPwPWe6xHO7eTKZCMHR5O7FiJwprg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1679690976736000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3y37ZUlBF-JD5elJi2_Ry3\">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!1vB2lizW-LicFSsWHeTItiRkGJbtrlB5jh9pqkUzvV4JOxjToEBFgCYwT8Srbayz6a9HO1VETbPwPWe6xHO7eTKZCMHR5O6ORXGuBQ$\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/covid19.ca.gov\/state-dashboard\/*postvax-status__;Iw!!AvL6XA!1vB2lizW-LicFSsWHeTItiRkGJbtrlB5jh9pqkUzvV4JOxjToEBFgCYwT8Srbayz6a9HO1VETbPwPWe6xHO7eTKZCMHR5O6ORXGuBQ$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1679690976736000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0wk5CATC8ulsOmfgYEljj_\">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:1761193044189726345&amp;th=187103be13d14689&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_uXpBYaHapibApiOYQJApVw4Oh3pZq7-xZIFHL5B4KZy0X-Bg2jeb2htvHJr3Jxj1tEdTcGW4VwhlGYOHGxQRiANCtRFIiO5dyLuOKJwcBWr3grCNZ9V3GyW0&amp;disp=emb\" \/><\/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>88,411,976 total vaccines administered.<\/li>\n<li>72.8% of the population has been vaccinated with a primary series.<\/li>\n<li>7,627 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 11,176,967 confirmed cases to date.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s average case count is 2,083 (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 5.0% (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 1,823 hospitalizations statewide.<\/li>\n<li>There are 214 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 101,019 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 claims the lives of 20 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","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-57228","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\/57228","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=57228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57229,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57228\/revisions\/57229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}