Dr. James Phillips condemned the “completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’” as “political theater” that endangered the health of everyone who was forced to take part. An attending physician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center took to Twitter Sunday evening to publicly voice outrage at President Donald Trump’s decision to briefly leave the Maryland hospital […]
COVID-19 case rates are continuing to rise in many Alaska communities. Statewide numbers are at all-time highs for 14-day average case rate (14.93 cases per 100,000 population) and percent positivity (3.84% for a 7-day rolling average). Alaska’s overall alert level continues to be high and trending up. We are urging Alaskans to exercise caution […]
DHSS today announced one new death and 133 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 131 are residents in 15 communities: Anchorage (68), Fairbanks (20), Wasilla (9), North Pole (8), Eagle River (5), Palmer (5), Utqiaġvik (4), Chugiak (3), Aleutians East Borough (2), Juneau (2), and one each in Bristol Bay and Lake and Peninsula Boroughs combined, Cordova, […]
DHSS today announced 132 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 130 are residents in 23 communities with one additional case under investigation: Anchorage (56), Fairbanks (29), Utqiaġvik (5), Eagle River (4), Wasilla (4), Kotzebue (3), Nome Census Area (3), North Pole (3), Bethel Census Area (2), Juneau (2), Kenai (2), Kodiak (2), Nikiski (2), Northwest Arctic Borough (2), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2), and […]