In the week after Christmas, Alaska saw a 262% increase in the number of COVID-19 cases compared to the seven-day average in the previous reporting period
Tiana Wang, right, and Emma Siegel, both fellows with the Alaska Fellows Program, pass out free, at-home COVID-19 tests to people during New Year’s Eve festivities in downtown Anchorage on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021.
According to state data, 3,689 cases were logged by Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services from Dec. 27 to Sunday. By contrast, in the prior period 1,018 cases were recorded. Though Alaska labs have officially sequenced just a handful of omicron cases, those reports tend to lag behind on-the-ground trends., state epidemiologist Joe McLaughlin said there are indications the mounting surge is due to the variant spreading in Alaska.
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