State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
Press release from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH):
Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19 and updates on the state’s pandemic response. The most up to date data is available on the state’s COVID-19 data dashboard.
Statewide COVID-19 Data
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 unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Vaccinations
- 76,146,348 total vaccines administered.
- 84.1% of the eligible population (5+) has been vaccinated with at least one dose.
- 53,127 people a day are receiving COVID-19 vaccination (average daily dose count over 7 days).
Cases
- California has 8,896,174 confirmed cases to date.
- Today’s average case count is 12,362 (average daily case count over 7 days).
- Unvaccinated people are 4.8 times more likely to get COVID-19 than boosted individuals (May 2, 2022 – May 8, 2022).
Testing
- The testing positivity rate is 7.0% (average rate over 7 days).
Hospitalizations
- There are 2,056 hospitalizations statewide.
- There are 244 ICU patients statewide.
- Unvaccinated people are 6.8 times more likely to be hospitalized than boosted individuals (May 2, 2022 – May 8, 2022).
Deaths
- There have been 90,612 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
- COVID-19 claims the lives of 9 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).
- Unvaccinated people are 10.1 times more likely to die than boosted individuals (April 25, 2022 – May 1, 2022).
ADDITIONAL UPDATES
2022-23 K-12 Testing Framework
Today, the California Testing Task Force released a K-12 School Testing Framework that outlines anticipated updates to COVID-19 testing strategies for the 2022-2023 school year. The document is intended to support local health and education agencies in their ongoing planning processes.
As noted in the SMARTER plan, and as we have all experienced, COVID-19 trends shift rapidly and California’s response to conditions in schools must remain nimble, adaptive, and responsive to dynamic challenges. For more information, please visit the California School Testing webpage.
Slow the Spread: Get Vaccinated and Boosted for COVID-19
The risk for COVID-19 exposure and infection continues as a number of Californians remain unvaccinated and unboosted.
Real-world evidence continues to show that the vaccine is preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Public health officials urge Californians to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible.
It is recommended that every vaccinated person 12 years or older should get a booster as long as they received their second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine at least five months ago or they received their Johnson & Johnson vaccine at least two months ago.
Find a vaccine near you by visiting myturn.ca.gov or calling 1-833-422-4255. The consent of a parent or legal guardian may be needed for those under age 18 to receive a vaccination. Visit Vaccinate All 58 to learn more about the safe and effective vaccines available for all Californians 5+.
Your Actions Save Lives
Protect yourself, family, friends and your community by following these prevention measures:
- Sign-Up for COVID-19 Policy Alerts: COVID-19 Policy Alerts provide up-to-date information regarding CDPH COVID-19 guidance and policy, including changes to orders, mandatory guidance and more. Registrants will receive prompt email alerts to updated guidance and policy available on our website as well as accompanying translations. Sign-up for the COVID-19 Policy Alerts emails today.
- Wear A Mask When Recommended or Required: Under California’s mask guidance, masks are strongly recommended for all individuals in most indoor settings. Masks are required for everyone in high transmission settings like emergency shelters, health care settings, correctional facilities, homeless shelters and long-term care facilities. Local jurisdictions may have additional requirements beyond the state requirements based on local conditions.
- Upgrade Your Mask: Good fit and filtration continue to be the best way to get the most out of your mask. The best masks for preventing COVID-19 include the N95, KN95 and KF94. If you don’t have access to one of these masks, wear a surgical mask or a surgical mask with a cloth mask on top. If you choose a fabric mask, opt for one with three or more cloth layers. No matter what kind of mask you wear, check the fit by avoiding gaps above the nose or on the sides.
- Isolation and Quarantine Guidance: CDPH updated its Isolation and Quarantine Guidance, as of April 6, 2022. CDPH no longer recommends quarantine for individuals who are exposed to COVID-19 and have no symptoms. Additionally, CDPH added recommendations for workers in certain high-risk settings (healthcare settings, long-term care settings and shelters, among others).
- My Vaccine Record is an easy way to show vaccination status at venues or businesses that require proof of vaccination. Visit myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov today to get your vaccine record.
- Recommendations if You’re Sick or Have Been Exposed: If you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle or body aches), or believe you have been exposed, get tested, call your health care provider, and stay home and away from others. Free, confidential testing is available statewide. Know what to do if you test positive for COVID-19 or have been exposed to COVID-19.
- Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
- Travel Tips: Delay travel (both domestic and international) until you are fully vaccinated. See the CDC’s full travel guidance. If you decide to travel, the state’s travel advisory recommends that all travelers arriving in California test for COVID-19 within three to five days after arrival, regardless of their vaccination status.
- Add Your Phone to the Fight: Sign up for COVID-19 exposure notifications from CA Notify. Also, individuals who test positive for COVID-19 – including those who test at home – are able to alert others of a potential exposure more quickly and conveniently. Individuals can now initiate the notification process as soon as they are aware of their positive test result. For more information, please visit the “Notify Others” page on CA Notify.
- Answer the call or text if a contact tracer from the CA COVID Team or your local health department tries to connect.
- Check with your local health department about local conditions. Local health jurisdictions can implement protocols that are stricter than state guidance.
Tracking COVID-19 in California
- Data and Tools – Models and dashboards for researchers, scientists, and the public
- COVID-19 Age, Race & Ethnicity Data – Weekly updated Age, Race & Ethnicity data
- Health Equity Dashboard – See how COVID-19 highlights existing inequities in health
- Tracking Variants – Data on the variants California is currently monitoring
- Safe Schools for All Hub – Information about safe in-person instruction
- COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance – Monitoring the virus that causes COVID-19
Health Care Workers
- As of May 26, local health departments have reported 160,894 confirmed positive cases in health care workers and 580 deaths statewide.
Testing Turnaround Time
- The testing turnaround time dashboard reports how long California patients are waiting for COVID-19 test results. During the week of May 15 to May 21, the average time patients waited for test results was 0.8 day. During this same time period, 89% of patients received test results in one day and 98% received them within two days.
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
- As of May 26, 2022, there have been 984 cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) reported statewide. MIS-C is a rare inflammatory condition associated with COVID-19 that can damage multiple organ systems. MIS-C can require hospitalization and be life threatening.
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The great King tide man caused Climate change theory is a scam. People seem to forget Humboldt Bay, as is currently observed, was way bigger just a century ago. Unrecognizably beautiful 300 years ago. Tremendous high tides at that time were dispersed over hundreds of acres of alluvial flats and lowland alder willow forests. This ranged from current day bayside to freshwater and Arcata. A ship offloading dock was located not to far away from the back of Jacoby Storehouse. The Arcata town square resembled little ocean/farming communities in the Azores. 101 was built on fill over alluvial bay flats and alder/willow forests when Arcata was Union. Numerous levees were constructed to beat back the bay, fill in lowlands for building, provide pasture and ag fields, and to prevent flooding. And so the extreme highs of the tides which have occurred since the oceans were born, and are occurring in 2022, are supposed to somehow indicate man caused global warming is occurring? It is simply a case of the nature(the oceans) reclaiming territory they have always occupied, albeit mans futile attempt to stop it from occurring. I suggest getting to work on shoring up failing 100 year old levees and stop blaming it on some unproven theory.
There is no doubt that we have a fraction of migratory birds left. People are killing her
Nice diatribe, what does it have to do with Covid?
You have angered the climate cult. Be careful, most of them are part of the vaccine cult and equally extreme in their angry, blind allegiance……..based on nothing……. and ZERO rebuttals offered …..of course.
You have a child’s understanding of our local geomorphology and oceanography.
Silt from logging filled in much of the bay, and our coast goes through cycles of subduction and uplifting.
Please try paragraphs!
The bay was also actively dyked and filled in to make room for agriculture though.
This information provided by CDPH
Because children and teens can get MIS-C during or after having COVID-19, the best way to protect them from MIS-C is to take everyday actions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in your home and community. These practices include:
Getting vaccinated & boosted – the COVID-19 vaccine is 91% effective at preventing MIS-C.
Wearing face masks. Read our face coverings Q&A.
Staying home and getting tested if you’re sick, even if you’re fully vaccinated.
Yes, information provided by the CDPH…
But can we even believe what they say is true? Nope.
(It’s not) It’s false. They are lying.
One only needs to look to their very first claim, above, to, see, IN FACT, that what they are claiming is NOT TRUE… It’s false. Lies.
They say, untruthfully,
“Rates of cases hospitalizations, and deaths are highest among unvaccinated individuals and lowest among boosted individuals.”
THIS IS NOT TRUE! IT IS FALSE!
THE RATES FOR “CASES” AND “HOSPITALIZATIONS”, ARE LOWEST, BY FAR, FOR MERELY VACCINATED INDIVIDUALS, NOT BOOSTED INDIVIDUALS.
For “cases”,
Boosted individuals are 2.1 time more numerous than only “vaccinated” individuals.
(18.1 vs 8.6) per 100k.
More than doubled.
For hospitalizations,
“boosted” individuals are 1.5 times as numerous as only “vaccinated” individuals.
(1.8 vs 1.2) per 100k.
Between vaccinated and boosted,
cases and hospitalizations,
it is clearly the boosted that are the highest, and it is not the vaccinated that are the highest, like the CDPH falsely claims…
For deaths, the clam still isn’t true, for vaccinated and boosted it’s the same,
(0.1 vs 0.1) per million.
So, why would the CDPH be misleading us?
Why would they be lying to us?
So we get boosted?
If they told the truth, and said “vaccinated” individuals had the lowest rates of infection and hospitalizations, compared to the “boosted”…
( 2.1, and 1.5 times as high, respectively),
would they more likely to remain only vaccinated, or would they be more likely to get boosted?
Did they lie to trick people into getting boosted?
It sure looks like it. I’d say yes.
They are definitely lying.
Vaccination not only protects children against severe COVID-19 illness but also from MIS-C, a rare complication that can show up weeks or even a month or two after even asymptomatic illness, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://web.musc.edu/about/news-center/2022/01/11/cdc-vaccination-effective-against-misc
But, what about the lies?
Can we even believe what they say is true?
What the CDPH is saying, is untrue.
Why wouldn’t what the CDC is saying, also be untrue?
Oh, yeah, I goofed up a bit, my bad… It was only one god that you were missing, not two, they were one and the same, just two different names in two different languages…
Look at the graph on the page that they linked. The difference between the vaccinated / vaccinated and boosted group is dwarfed by the difference between the unvaccinated and the vaccinated / vaccinated and boosted groups.
The unvaccinated are 4.8 times more likely than the vaccinated and boosted to catch covid, 6.8 times more likely to be hospitalized and over 10 times more likely to die.
Do Vaccines Protect Against Long Covid?
Maybe, according to a growing number of studies, but there’s not yet a definitive answer.
The jury is still out, but a growing number of studies suggest that getting a Covid vaccine can reduce — though not eliminate — the risk of longer-term symptoms.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/long-covid-vaccines.html
Vaccines only prevent long COVID, 15% of the time, and like grey fox says, that isn’t even a definite answer, so MAYBE15%.
but, fauci said…..
“God” of statistics.
Without Magnesium, Vitamin D Supplementation May Backfire
When taking high-dose vitamin D3, it’s important to also take extra vitamin K2 and magnesium to avoid complications associated with excessive calcification
https://www.midlandscbd.com/articles/without-magnesium-vitamin-d-supplementation-may-backfire-7628
Thanks for the positive message grey fix. It’s also worth noting that good grass fed animal organs are a great source of essential vitamins including D and K2. Lots of traditional foods that we’ve set aside contain the key vitamins that we see so much deficiency in these days
Murphy’s sells local grass fed beef. The Co-Op probably does also.
Sure do, you want the organs though. Which are a little harder to source. Liver, heart, testes. That kind of stuff. It’s all available locally, we’re really lucky to have such quality animal proteins produced in our community
Cases in my area are rampant…my neighbors all have it and yet are driving around, having teenagers over…???
Covid isn’t over…it’s still killing, maiming and causing financial distress
Pretending it’s over when clearly it’s not is EUGENICS
the purposeful killing of segments of the population
as a matter of government policy
Please mask up…not asking you to vaxx, just asking for some consideration for others at a time of hyperindividualism, property worship and systemic breakdown
It get more dystopian by the day~
“gets”…gah! o for an edit button…
You guys all spend way to much time digesting and regurgitating covid facts and statistics .. because nevermind discussing the cause? Just continue on endlessly about the effects?? I dont know about y’all sometimes.. Distracted much???