Alaska saw 809 new Covid diagnoses on Oct. 28, a 16 percent decrease from the week prior.
232 Alaskans are in the hospital with Covid, and 33 of those are on ventilators. The number of people in the hospital with Covid represents 21 percent of all hospitalization.
There are 290 non-ICU beds available statewide and 20 ICU beds available.
65 percent of eligible Alaskans have had one dose of a Covid vaccine, and 60 percent have been fully vaccinated. A partial vaccination reportedly confers between 64-75 percent protection from the virus.
According to the CDC, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 in people who received two doses and had no evidence of being previously infected.
Community vaccination rates – 1 dose:
95% – Bristol Bay region.
90% – Aleutians
89% – Skagway
87% – Nome
87% – Yukon-Koyukuk
85% – Kusilvak
85% – Sitka
84% – Juneau
82% – Yakutat
82% – Bethel
77% – Haines
76% – Aleutian West
76% – Denali
75% – Kodiak
73% – Ketchikan
72% – Prince of Wales
71% – Northwest Arctic
70% – Petersburg
69% – Anchorage
69% – Valdez-Cordova
68% – Wrangell
68% – Dillingham
57% – Fairbanks
54% – Kenai
48% – Mat-Su
43% – North Slope
41% – Fairbanks Southeast
699 Alaskans have died from Covid since March of 2020.
