The state health department announced an additional 5,497 new COVID-19 cases over the last two days, and Alaska again leads the nation in the rate of new cases.
Alaska has once again shattered its previous record for the highest number of COVID-19 cases reported in a single day, with the state health department reporting more than 6,500 additional infections over the last two days.
The state is still trending at near-record numbers when it comes to daily COVID-19 cases, according to the latest release by the state health department, with a five-day combined total of more 10,000 additional COVID-19 infections.
Alaska's health officials explain why the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is concerning to health officials worldwide. Here's what they know, and are still waiting to learn.
Pfizer said it will ask the FDA and international regulators to authorize its pill as soon as possible, after independent experts recommended halting the company’s study based on the strength of its results. Once Pfizer applies, the FDA could make a decision within weeks or months.
Interim University of Alaska President Pat Pitney has denied a request from the University of Alaska Fairbanks chancellor to make COVID-19 vaccines a requirement for all in-person students and staff at that campus.
As Alaska’s current surge of COVID-19 continues and resources start to run short in hospitals, the state has activated a crisis standards of care document to help guide decision making for 20 hospitals and health care facilities.
The city of Fairbanks is opening an additional free COVID testing site to help with demand. According to City Communications Director, Teal Soden, the Department of Public Health office asked them to open the site last year, but due to lack of demand it was closed.
Citing rising COVID-19 cases and the healthcare staff shortage, Governor Dunleavy reached out to Alaskans today urging them to work together and get vaccinated.
Alaska reported five deaths and over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases on Monday — a high number of cases compared to previous COVID-19 roundup reports that include case counts from the weekend.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Tuesday used the strongest language so far to refer to Alaska's current surge in COVID-19 cases, urging residents to get vaccinated as COVID-19 hospitalizations remain high and putting stress on hospitals.
For this week's Health Watch, we take a look at a collaboration between UAF, UAA, and the state's public health labs to track the progress of COVID-19 variants across the state.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky says she expects the delta variant will become the dominant coronavirus strain in the United States. The delta variant, first detected in India, has become dominant in Britain.
The death rates — posted online this week by federal health authorities — add to the growing body of evidence that the number of lives lost directly or indirectly to the coronavirus in the U.S. is far greater than the officially reported COVID-19 death toll of nearly 600,000 in 2020-21.
Envoys from World Trade Organization member nations are taking up a proposal to ease patents and other intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines to help developing countries fight the pandemic.
Studies suggest some people who take immunosuppressants might not have had a strong response to the vaccine and therefore might not be protected against the virus.
The vaccines authorized in the U.S., made by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, can last for up to about six months from the time of manufacture, depending on how they’re stored.
Nearly 63% of the adult U.S. population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 133.6 million, or more than 40 percent, are fully vaccinated.
The International Olympic Committee says more than 80% of athletes and staff staying in the Olympic Village on Tokyo Bay will be vaccinated — and they are expected to remain largely in a bubble at the village and venues.
