The State of Alaska’s data dashboard shows 825 new positive diagnoses of Covid-19 in Alaska for Thursday. That’s down from 842 the previous day, or 17 fewer cases, and a 2 percent drop day over day.
There are currently 186 people in Alaska hospitals with Covid, up from 180 on Wednesday.
27 new Covid-19 hospitalizations have been logged since Oct. 1 and the death of 10 Alaskans have been attributed to Covid this month.
See the daily Covid count dashboard here.
105 of the 119 adult intensive care beds in Alaska are full — with patients of all kinds, not just Covid, up from 95 the day before.
760 out of 1,110 non-ICU beds across the state are full, with a capacity of 319 available.
See the hospital dashboard here.
30 people in Alaska hospitals are on ventilators, a drop from 38 earlier this week, or a 21 percent decrease.
The overall percentage of Covid-infected patients in Alaska hospitals has leveled out, and is now at 18.8 percent, a slight increase from Wednesday, when it was 18.5 percent of all patients.
90 beds in Anchorage hospitals are now occupied by Covid-positive patients, down from 119 on Sept. 23.
See the hospital bed availability dashboard here.
Since Oct. 1, 2021, 27 Alaskans have been admitted to hospitals for treatment of Covid.
A total of 116,367 Covid tests in Alaska have yielded positive results since March of 2020, when the virus was first recognized in the state.
355,531 Alaskans have been fully vaccinated.
