Fact Check: Does California have lowest COVID case rate of any state?

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Governor Gavin Newsom highlighted the state's COVID rate, having introduced further rules in the state amid the ongoing pandemic.

On the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, there is a COVID data tracker which details levels of community transmission across the United States.This was the lowest of any state in the nation. Connecticut was the next lowest at 83.8 new cases per 100,000 persons in the past 7 days.

While California was the lowest state, Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, had only 27.4 new cases per 100,000 persons in the past 7 days. California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference after meeting with students at James Denman Middle School on October 01, 2021 in San Francisco, California.The October 5 numbers still placed California as the lowest state, though its rate had gone up from figures reported the day before.It had previously dipped down to moderate, per reports from October 4, the timing of which coincided with Newsom's tweet.

KTLA reported on October 4 that California was in the moderate transmission category, with a seven-day case rate of 41.3 per 100,000.

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