Alaska COVID Cases Rising Due to Delta Variant and “Vaccine Hesitancy”
In the last three weeks, Alaska’s positivity rate of COVID-19 has been rising steadily, although it is still below 5%, the level the World Health Organization recommends to fight the virus. It is currently at 2.5% and state health officials say they want it below 2%.
The increase in positive cases and in hospitalizations is attributed, state health officials say, most likely to the highly contagious delta variant of the virus.
As of Monday, state data showed 46 people hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19...
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