Testing positive for Covid-19 in Alaska on Thursday were another 860 Alaskans. The number of Alaskans testing positive for Covid has trended lower for the past few weeks.
The big drop has been in the number of Covid patients in Alaska hospitals. Down from over 244 on Oct. 24, there are now just 161 patients, and just 25 of them are on ventilators, down from a high of 38 three weeks ago.
Also dropping is the percentage of patients in hospitals who have Covid. That is now just below 15 percent, whereas two weeks ago it was about 22 percent.
Hospital beds are opening up again, too. with most Southcentral Alaska hospitals having room for ICU and non-ICU patients, while ICU and non-ICU beds in Southeast Alaska are in the green “open” zone.
To date, 714 Alaskans have died, with their deaths attributed to Covid-19.
The decrease in Covid-19 positive cases has dropped 8 percent this week over last week. Some 8.1 percent of people getting tested for Covid in Alaska ended up with a positive result over the past seven days, with an average of 445 positive cases per day during the last week.
Can you tally the daily Covid count since the teaching of it began?
I’m really curious to know if the total amount of positive cases matches or exceeds the population of Alaska.
This would be important info for considering whether or not we have reached the “herd immunity” goal post or not.
tracking, not teaching
I will do that story soon. Thanks. – sd
Great! Thank you!
Summer, according to the State website there have been 3,374,603 tests administered since 3/2020. The state further reports 136,822 cases (cases are not defined, but for the sake of discussion I am making the assumption that these are individual Alaskans) over the same time frame. 65% of Alaskans have received at least one shot and 60% are fully vaccinated, which amounts to 367,682 (per the state).
Since I am famous for my questionable math skills, I will let you figure out the herd immunity percentage here. All these numbers can be found on the State of Alaska Covid website
According to ADN news report of yesterday, the total Alaska resident confirmed cases is 136822 (this figure doesn’t include DOD or VA). There are an additional 5296 nonresident cases.
Much less than population of Alaska.
Just to add some more information to the aforementioned points.
According to the most recent DHSS Hospitalizations, Deaths, Repeat and Vaccine Breakthrough Infections report that runs through September:
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“A total of 1,581 SARS-CoV-2 reinfections were documented among Alaska residents since the beginning of the pandemic; 13 persons were reinfected twice (i.e., counted as a case 3 times).”
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“Of the 111,363 Alaska residents with at least one documented case of COVID-19, 31,591 became fully vaccinated after their first infection.”
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Out of the 367,682 vaccinated at least 31,591 are also confirmed cases, since there have been 136,822 confirmed cases math tells us that there have been at least 472,913 people fully vaccinated or confirmed cases. The state population is roughly 730,000.
2 years to flatten our freedoms … oops, the curve.
You know how hard it is to lose 5 lbs in a healthy body? One month by consistent excercise and eating less calorie than what you averagely ate before diet. Covid come around and your body loses the five pounds in four days. Between you and covid, the two of you probably ran a 88.5 mile marathon nonstop!
If covid steals your joy of eating by permanenetly robbing you of your nose, then you might have the chance to maintain your new weight by taking away your joy of eating.
Flatten the curve. Let’s give Covid a new reputation. 4 days of covid to flatten the tummy Hahahaha
15,000 calories Jenny. Cut back on 15,000 calories and you will lose 5 lb. It’s really just about math. No sense trying to overdramatize it.
So much nonsense here. Its simple, take care of yourself and you’ll be just fine. I don’t want to toot my own horn here but get this…..Contracted Covid at 56 years old as an asthma sufferer. Got lots of sleep, drank lots of water, watched what I ate (salads, avoided excessive carbs and sugar). Recovered in a few days. Since then, upped my cardio routine, continued resistance training and took more Vitamin supplements (especially Vitamin D), started taking the anti inflammatory Turmeric, stayed hydrated, and get sufficient sleep. Due to my profession, I have been around infected individuals almost daily for over a year. 100% healthy and never felt better.
Apparently you do.
Some of the hospitals are near capacity.
OK… what exactly does that mean?
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Reality is that a hospital needs to be near capacity just to generate enough revenue to keep the lights on and the staff paid. If I was running the hospital, I would be at above 90% capacity every day. Anything less means I am losing money.
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Yes, ICU is a bit different, and leaving some of those beds empty for emergencies is appropriate, but realistically, not every person in ICU has to be there for the full duration of their doctor’s wishes. There are contingency plans for the situations where demand overwhelms ability, and from what I can tell, Providence is pretending those plans do not exist.
I agree with you. Hospitals are businesses and low capacity affects their ability to keep the doors open. This is Alaska, we are remote and our resources for health care are at this moment finite. Even without a pandemic you have the chance that all ICU beds are occupied and you need to be transferred to another facility for care. It is the nature of living in this place. All this hyperbole about beds is really getting on my nerves.
I’ll tooot ANS’s horn. When they know a patient has 44% lung capacity on their best day, and don’t have oxygen, are medicaid and medicare eligible they withhold urgently needed perscriptions from marginally ambulatory frail patients to make them in winter come into their admittedly covidian infested establishment to make what’s left of life harder on elderly patients. Aren’t they “sweet” little nadeeeve leeeeders? I’d say not! Not a drop of compassion in those creep protocols. No wonder Zink is all so cozy with those easy sycophants.
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