Alaska shatters single-day COVID record with more than 6,000 cases over the last 2 days

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Alaska has once again shattered its previous record for the highest number of COVID-19 cases reported in a single day, with the state health department reporting more than 6,500 additional infections over the last two days.

shows at 26% increase in new cases over the last week compared to the week before, and cases are considerably higher than they were in mid-December.

Alaska has also risen back up the national rankings in terms of the rate of new cases per capita over the last week. Previously hovering in the mid-20s, Alaska is now eighth in the nation for its rate of new COVID-19 cases over the past seven days, which according to theThe number of peoplewith the virus in Alaska also rose again on Friday, up to 134 compared to 116 COVID-19-related hospitalizations on Wednesday. Of all people currently hospitalized in Alaska, state data shows 11.

COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are two of the most lagging indicators of the virus’ spread. Alaska’s COVID-19 hospitalizations had been hovering in the 50s in early January, but have since risen as the omicron variant has continued to spread across the state.

The state did not report any additional deaths related to COVID-19 on Friday, following a large report of more than 60 deaths on Wednesday. Since the pandemic began here in March 2020, the state has recorded a total of 1,018 Alaska resident deaths and 33 nonresident deaths that have been related to the virus.in Alaska, health experts have said the true number is likely higher due to the amount of time it takes to sequence COVID-19 case samples., 61.

 

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and Dunleavy is calling all state employees back to the office!

Common sense could've prevented this. If we actually had someone in office who cared about us, not his corporate dollars.

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