Pandemic wrap-up

Three years after being closed down, individuals still are getting sick from COVID-19, consisting of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who evaluated favorable this week.

California's numbers

Information since March 1 from the CDC.

Cases

12,101,930 overall

30,628 cases per 100K

26,162 brand-new cases in the previous week

Deaths

100,426 total (0.8% of cases).

239 in the past week.

254 deaths per 100K.

Over the past three years, California has actually had drought, enormous fires, the greatest gas prices in its history, raging winter storms and like the remainder of the world, the coronavirus pandemic.

California led the country in COVID-19 cases and deaths.

On the intense, side the state's death rate per 100,000 (254) is lower than the majority of the other highly-populated states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The numbers are becoming politicized as Gov. Gavin Newsom's office released a statement Feb. 28, 2023, "California's death rate is the most affordable among big states. If California had Texas' death rate, 27,000 more people would have passed away here. If California had Florida's rate, that figure dives to approximately 56,000 more deaths.".



California's death rate is about the like Mexico, Spain and France, but not as low as Panama, Germany and Ecuador, which is close to 200 per 100,000.

Vietnam had about as numerous cases as California and its death rate is 44.37 per 100,000 people.

The guv's note discuss economics coming out of the pandemic stating, "Since February 2021, California has actually created 1,628,300 brand-new jobs-- over 16% of the country's jobs, without a doubt more than any other state. By comparison, Texas created 1,133,200 tasks (11.3% of the nation's) and Florida produced 787,600 jobs (7.9% of the country's) because very same amount of time.".

The statement does not point out California's 40 million population is bigger than Texas by 10 million people and almost two times as lots of as Florida's 22 million people.

California's joblessness rate was higher throughout the pandemic too. In January 2022, California's joblessness rate was 5.8%, Texas 4.8% and Florida 3.5%.

In the spring of 2020, all three states hit historic highs for joblessness. California was greatest with 16.8%, Florida was 14.1% and Texas was 12.8%.

COVID-19 still is a problem as the state averaged more than 2,000 brand-new cases a day in the first week of March and the state had 2,336 clients hospitalized for the infection Monday. At its peak in January 2021, more than 21,000 individuals were hospitalized in California.

Recent transmission in California

This map shows the percentage modification in level of transmission compared to the previous seven-day period. The map is as of Feb. 23 through March 1.

No more tiers

Early in the pandemic, the state had a four-color metric and enacted shutdowns when locations remained in the purple (prevalent) tier and red (significant) tier. If the state's four-color tier system still was in place, its 6.9 brand-new cases per 100,000 and 6.5% test positivity rate as of Tuesday would remain in red.

California's COVID-19 State of Emergency was stated officially over Feb. 28.

Vaccines

The chart is from the California Department of Public Health. It defines an immunized hospitalization as one that occurs in a person who received a minimum of 2 doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of the Johnson & & Johnson vaccine at least 2 weeks before they tested favorable for COVID-19.

An unvaccinated case, hospitalization or death is one that occurs in a person who has not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine.



Calculating rates by vaccination and booster status is impacted by numerous aspects that make analysis of current trends particularly tough. Aspects including resistance from previous infection, subsiding protection associated to the amount of time because vaccination and distinctions in avoidance and screening behaviors by age and vaccination status have a growing effect on information in time.

Deaths

Weekly patterns in variety of COVID-19 deaths in California reported to the CDC.



In accordance with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the definition of COVID-19 cases and death counts for numerous jurisdictions include both validated and probable COVID-19 cases and deaths.

Deaths and cases compared

The distribution of verified COVID-19 cases and deaths reveals substantial disparities throughout California's age groups. People 18-49 have a disproportionate variety of cases. Individuals 65 and over have an out of proportion number of deaths.



Sources: California Department of Public Health, CDC, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, California Governor's Office, Bureau of Labor Statistics.