COVID-19 hospitalizations in Alaska have dropped by more than half since the end of January. They’re less than a quarter of what they were at last year’s peak.
In late January, Alaska saw more than 14,000 cases of COVID-19 in one week, a record driven by the omicron variant. Its high transmission rate was hitting hospital staff hard.
“But at the same time, hospitals have been very busy because throughout delta and this whole pandemic, many people have postponed care, and now are at the point where they need it,” Monk said. “The care that they had postponed was becoming more and more urgent.” “Omicron just happens to be better at the mechanism that’s more efficient in the nose and much less efficient at affecting the one in the lungs,” Bernstein said. “So that combination really was kind of a gift to us because it meant it spread through huge amounts of the population, increasing the amount of people that are immune. But it didn’t overwhelm us more than delta.”Dr.
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