Crisis in Alaska: Steepest Epi Curve and Crowded Hospitals Mean More Deaths Ahead
After 1,151 new Covid-19 cases last weekend and all ICU beds in Anchorage full, the state reported another 634 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, 601 of them residents. Driven almost entirely by the highly contagious Delta variant, Alaska’s epidemiological curve is steeper than ever, with a prediction that cases will double in 26 days. But before that, cases will surpass the state’s highest peak since the pandemic started, which was 728 cases on November 28, 2020. That is predicted to happen tomorrow, with a ...
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