Alaska’s Plateau of Covid Cases is “Creeping Downward” Says State Epidemiologist
The numbers from last weekend — 1,387 new cases, 53 deaths and 139 hopitalizations — may sound similar from weeks earlier, but state epidemiologist Dr. Louisa Castrodale carefully told the Anchorage Daily News yesterday that looking at the past two weeks, the case count appears to be “creeping downward."
Cases over the past weekend are 10% lower than a week ago and 40% lower than the first weekend in October.
September has been the cruelest month since the pandemic began in Alaska, and today’s most recent numbers underscore that...
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