Alaska’s COVID-19 case rate is again the highest
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Posted On: 11/19/2022 12:08:48 PM
Alaska’s COVID-19 case rate is again the highest in the nation as hospitalizations tick up
By Annie Berman
Updated: January 29, 2022
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/01/28/al...s-tick-up/
From 10 months ago and roughly 9 months after Covid vaxxes became available.
Matters have improved in AK as elsewhere as people who understand public health and safety received vaxxes and boosters. Also, as elsewhere, Trump voters remain under-vaxxed and over-represented in the bone yards.
Which is why your little Caribou Barbie won't befowl the halls of Congress. She'd be redundant anyway with MTG and Sloebert holding down the moron seats.
As Alaska once again reports the highest COVID-19 case rate in the nation, the highly contagious omicron variant is continuing to snarl staffing at health care facilities that have had to adapt to the ups and downs of the pandemic.
The state on Friday reported 5,897 cases of COVID-19 over the previous two days amid rising hospitalization numbers. Alaska’s seven-day case rate of 2,360.4 cases per 100,000 is higher than any other U.S. state, according to a CDC tracker.
Meanwhile, cases and hospitalizations in many other states and countries continued to fall. Alaska’s omicron surge began a few weeks after other states, which is likely why cases here have not yet begun to slow, Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer, said Thursday during a call with reporters.
“Alaska, Oklahoma and Washington are currently leading the pack,” she said, while “many of the East Coast states such as Maryland and Washington, D.C., have really started to come down significantly after these large peaks. So just different places at different times with this virus.”
By Annie Berman
Updated: January 29, 2022
By Annie Berman
Updated: January 29, 2022
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/01/28/al...s-tick-up/
From 10 months ago and roughly 9 months after Covid vaxxes became available.
Matters have improved in AK as elsewhere as people who understand public health and safety received vaxxes and boosters. Also, as elsewhere, Trump voters remain under-vaxxed and over-represented in the bone yards.
Which is why your little Caribou Barbie won't befowl the halls of Congress. She'd be redundant anyway with MTG and Sloebert holding down the moron seats.
As Alaska once again reports the highest COVID-19 case rate in the nation, the highly contagious omicron variant is continuing to snarl staffing at health care facilities that have had to adapt to the ups and downs of the pandemic.
The state on Friday reported 5,897 cases of COVID-19 over the previous two days amid rising hospitalization numbers. Alaska’s seven-day case rate of 2,360.4 cases per 100,000 is higher than any other U.S. state, according to a CDC tracker.
Meanwhile, cases and hospitalizations in many other states and countries continued to fall. Alaska’s omicron surge began a few weeks after other states, which is likely why cases here have not yet begun to slow, Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer, said Thursday during a call with reporters.
“Alaska, Oklahoma and Washington are currently leading the pack,” she said, while “many of the East Coast states such as Maryland and Washington, D.C., have really started to come down significantly after these large peaks. So just different places at different times with this virus.”
By Annie Berman
Updated: January 29, 2022
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