Dr. Anne Zink, the state’s chief medical officer, said the Omicron variant is in Alaska, and cases of Covid-19 are on the rise. According to the state variant dashboard, Delta variant remains the dominant strain in Alaska, although the data lags by several weeks.
For Jan. 5-6, 3,640 new cases of Covid were diagnosed in Alaska, there was one new death reported and 70 total hospitalizations.
“Thankfully, we do expect in general to see more mild disease with Omicron, both because of the nature of the virus as well as many Alaskans either being vaccinated or previously having had COVID,” she wrote on Twitter.
She said that hospital capacity remains stable and the state continues to work with hospitals through the surge. Depending on a person’s underlying condition, the new variant may be mild or serious, but with more vastly more cases come at least some increase in hospitalizations.
“Both testing and treatments options have become more limited through this surge and we continue to work with communities to improve access given limited supplies and increased demands. Layered prevention helps protect against severe disease, and if you are ill, talk to your provider about treatment options,” she wrote. She did not say what treatment options are effective or available, and she advised people to get up-to-date on their vaccinations to protect against serious disease.
One aspect of Omicron that is being discussed in research circles is that people with previous immunity from a Covid infection or from a vaccine appear more vulnerable to Omicron than to the Delta variant, which appears to be on the wane.
As for treatments, monoclonal antibodies are used in some of the major population centers in Alaska to treat those with the Delta variant. The antibodies act as substitute antibodies for people whose immune systems might not produce enough natural fighters. Some of the more known monoclonal antibody brands, however, are not as effective in reducing the impact of the Omicron variant.
Sotrovimab, administered as a single dose by IV infusion, is said to more successful in treating Omicron. It is administered as a single dose by IV infusion. “This treatment should be given within 10 days of symptom onset,” according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services website. But it’s in short supply everywhere, including Alaska.
Paxlovid, the new Covid pill from Pfizer, is being distributed to the states by the federal government, but in extremely limited amounts. In December, Alaska was given just 120 doses of the 65,000 that were made available for shipment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for Paxlovid (also called nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets) for the treatment of mild-to-moderate Covid in adults and children 12 and older who are at high risk for progression to severe Covid-19.
“An initial 65,000 courses of Paxlovid will be made available for shipment to states and territories and will begin arriving at dispensing sites by the end of December,” the HHS website says.
Other treatments for Omicron’s typically milder symptoms may be over-the-counter medications that many people take to reduce symptoms from cold or flu.
To check variant data for Alaska, check the Alaska Coronavirus Variants Dashboard at akvariants.github.io.
Lol
and she advised people to get up-to-date on their vaccinations to protect against serious disease.
I’m not planning on doing this recommendation. The science that is coming in on this covid shot is showing that the cure is worse than the disease. It’s possible there could be a case for the covid shot, but for most and certainly the young its a very bad idea. How she can continue to support this covid shot without issuing caution is just a dereliction of duty in my opinion. Bob’s response is worthy!
Just like the 4th amendment, informed consent is gone.
Besides, she’s on her way out the door anyhow…
Is there a petition to get the governor to replace or fire her? I heard there was but cannot verify it.
The vaccines have killed 850,000 Americans? Oops, probably should think before posting.
Wait a year, John, and that claim will probably be just about right.
Sorry Jeff, did you fail to comprehend what the post said? They literally claimed the “science science that is coming in on this covid shot is showing that the cure is worse than the disease.”
Can you comprehend those words? So explain the science, and how more than 850,000 Americans are dead from the vaccine. Let’s see it.
Go to the project Veritas site.Fauci Exposed per Pentagon papers.
You usually get your science from project veritas? How many lawsuits do they have going these days? Any reason to use them, rather than actual credible sources? No thanks. Find a credible source to present.
I believe the UK is beginning an investigation conducted by their military of media censoring, impacts on disease treatment, origins of disease development. Should be illuminating. Hope it has implications helpful to AK.
Aleutian, what is it exactly you think the ministry of defense would be investigating there? It appears they are assisting hospitals that are over run by COVID. Only on nutjob blogs is the concern with the media rather than the Omicron wave.
John,
Don’t trust varitas sources?
That is some investigative reporting and information we need.
You could look at Dr. Malone and the thousands of doctors that have joined him in warning that the cure is in fact worse than the disease. 70% of covid deaths were avoidable or died with covid and not from.
This is a good medication and Brandon won with the greatest vote of all time, are today’s operations.
You better go to Lifesite News and check out possible ways of minagating the damaged done by your injection ?
Can I have Ivermectin prescribed by a Doctor & have a Pharmacy fill it
Heretic and sinner, repent! Profess your blind devotion and compliance to St. Fauci-Mengele, or be burned at the stake by the Krazy Kovidian Kult!
Now you sound like you lost your freaking mind. Get a grip will you it’s all going to be okay.
Repent, sinner, or fact the wrath of St. Fauci-Mengele and the Apocalypse of the Unvaccinated (sic)!
You can order it on line from India. Look for the Ziverdo pack. Takes a few weeks for shipment.
You can check with the local vet.
We had a wonderful vet a few years back, she would often say, “let me check in with a colleague who specializes in this area and get back with you.” She even advised us against over vaccinating our sled dogs, cutting their vaccine regime back, allowing their immune system to naturally strengthen. The polar opposite of the Pfizer sponsored booster brigade MD’s & pediatricians.
Over vaccinating is something that can occur, but it’s unlikely your dogs were at risk unless you were getting them vaccinated more often than recommended.
If you have a problem with pfizer, or MDs that politically you disagree with, that’s fine. But it’s not like you have any credibility to make the call. Your vet, as she would say, wouldn’t advise you on things she doesn;t know. Similarly, you shouldn’t either.
The definition of insanity is what you say……… Pfizer number four is on the way. ?
No downside to the boosters. Just upside. So far, a 4th booster is available to people with weakened immune systems that would benefit from a booster as we head into another COVID wave. The definition of insanity is attempting the same thing over and over while expecting different results. In the case of vaccines for COVID, they are shown to benefit the immune system, and each booster is shown to improve that. So not really the definition of insanity, unless you haven’t been paying attention.
Replying to John here. Sadly, your questions are circular and make no sense. The words I selected were the ones I meant to use. The important questions Americans may not speak due to censorship are being examined in other countries.
You can’t avoid it. You can get boosted to lessen the severity. Cloth masks buy you 20 minutes tops. N95 2.5 hours.
“Boosted to lessen the severity.” Do you actually believe that tripe? The best you can hope for from these vaccines is the fact that they don’t work at all.
Classic Mass Hysteria.
The Sheeple lined up and did exactly what their overlords told them to do.
Do you really trust the Feds, BigPharma, Mengele Fauci, the FDA, CDC, and SloJo Biden?
Really?
The vaxxed will realize the error of their ways- but it will be too late.
AkPureBlood…
Right On Brother, when they have to change the definition of what “Vaccine” means you’ve got to question this crap!
The definition of vaccine is still the same, regardless of debunked talking points. These vaccines meet the definition of a vaccine, pre and post covid-19.
Not true. Where are you getting that from?
Jack, do you honestly think you stumbled onto a massive global conspiracy by lazily watching youtube videos and reading nutjob blogs on the internet?
“You can get boosted to lessen the severity.”
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Prove it.
Pretty much every piece of information I see does not support that statement in any way. Prove you will get a less severe reaction to a COVID infection.
Prove I won’t. As you know people being admitted are mostly the unvaccinated.
I agree, CBM. There’s no way to prove that the “vaccine” lessons a person’s symptoms. I know many “unshot” people who had little or no symptoms who were surprised when they learned they had covid.
Which schedule? A boost every 6 months, 5 (UK) or 4 months (France)? Have one of the Chosen 150 order a pain pump and fill with “vaccine” as a constant infusion… then fully covered 24/7/365. This is a perfect time to try the very very safe regimen of IVM/HCQ/VitD/VitC/Zinc and see how it goes. Since the present treatment for active symptomatic Covid is short on supplies… why not? I thought the Science on masks was settle long ago?
https://howbad.info/
Did those that promoted this gene altering ‘vaccine’ to our fellow Alaskans honestly think adverse events could be forever hidden? She should be hiding in shame instead of publishing more garbage information filled with Pfizer promos and maybe think about lawyering up.
Awful.
What “gene altering ‘vaccine’” are you talking about. No such thing exists.
Suzanne published this. Not Dr. Zink
What adverse events have been hidden from the public? Mostly what I hear and read on here are people making up stories like they are fact and then it gets repeated and eventually you start believing your own lies. Best to just trust the facts. Stop playing politics.
Yeah, Greg, world-class athletes in their 20s have always dropped dead from heart attacks and strokes on the playing field, as they have been doing in great numbers for the past year or so.
Old wives tails constantly brought of by fear mongers. If it was going to kill anyone it would have been. It don’t take much these days.
But it has been doing exactly that, Greg. You just haven’t been paying attention, or else you have had your nose glued to the TV corporate media to the exclusion of any other, much more truthful, sources of information.
Read the VAERS lately?
Glenn Campbell sang, “I am a lineman for the county….”.
Anne Zink sings, “I am a shill for Fauci….”.
You can take your layered mandates and shove it you know where. Give me LIBERTY or give me DEATH!
Ivermectin works.
It no doubt works, for parasites. Whether it works in treating covid or not remains to be seen but it does not appear to.
Uttar Pradesh, Japan, Czechia, and many other locations that have successfully used ivermectin against the Wuhan Virus would seem to refute your claim of its inefficacy here, Steve.
Brace yourself for a 10,000 word barrage of Cliff Clavin worthy NIH/NYT cut and pasted corporate propaganda. #cheers
Indeed, Eric!
Eric,
Let me know what Alex Barenson, or is it Berenson has to say about it.
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#hieroglyphsforcliff
Jeff,
Any luck finding a study that isn’t fraudulent to support that? How many months has it been since I first asked if you could provide a study to support your belief? Anecdotal evidence is great, anecdotally I’ve heard of people taking ivermectin who died of covid…does that mean it doesn’t cure covid?
Steve, the proof of ivermectin’s early-treatment effectiveness against the Wuhan Virus is out there in abundance and very easily found, but one has to have an open and honest mind to accept it, to be able to think critically and independently, and to look past the vast propaganda and disinformation campaign waged against it by the powers that be.
This explains why you refuse to acknowledge the evidence, and continue to disingenuously and dishonestly pretend that the evidence does not exist.
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PS: I am not your research assistant. Do your own damned research on the subject, if you honestly care to — it would be more than easy enough.
All this time and you still haven’t read a single study to support your beliefs. You really should try informing yourself sometime, there’s a whole world out there full of fascinating things.
#cliffstutorialoncircularcovidclottshotlogic. #justbrilliant #timeforanothersherry
All this time, Steve, and you still haven’t allowed yourself to look at the mountain of evidence that just happens to refute your rigidly-held faith and belief in the establishment narrative. How sad for you.
Jeff,
As I’ve previously told you, I’ve reviewed a lot of studies and a lot of anecdotal evidence. The anecdotal evidence goes both ways and proves nothing. The studies that claim ivermectin work are at best inconclusive, there are a few completely fraudulent studies, most are questionable, and any of those that are even close to being actual studies have found that ivermectin doesn’t help, might hurt, or might have a small positive effect.
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So given that the preponderance of evidence suggests that ivermectin does not cure or help covid, which study or studies have led you to believe that it does work? Or are you simply basing your entire full faith in ivermectin on someone’s word? Do you believe that third world countries test, inspect, catalog, and report better than the USA? Do you really think third world conditions are so much superior to first world countries when it comes to medicine?
At the risk of intellectually soiling myself by deigning to respond to your spurious and invariably pro-establishment conformist tripe, I guess you believe that Japan and Czechia, among others, are “third world countries”. And even if they were, so what? The truth is the truth, and facts and facts, no matter where they originate. The fact that you try to thereby denigrate mountains of evidence with such a shallow and specious dismissal speaks volumes about your intellectual and moral integrity (i.e., the lack thereof).
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Steve, you do not need to look at ‘studies’ — you can just examine the statistical evidence from multiple programs that successfully treated TENS OF MILLIONS of individuals with ivermectin in various nations around the world to unequivocally conclude that that drug is very efficacious against the Wuhan Virus. But you steadfastly refuse to do that, and pretend that all that evidence does not exist. One could ask “why?”, but to me the answers to that question are very clear at this point.
Steve-O, Ivermectin we are told don’t work, but in Japan, India, Africa, and amongst friends and free thinkers here in the US it has proven damn effective.
But then Pfizer holds no patent on it, so unlike their failed jab there isn’t $$$ in it for big Pharmaand their stockholder political allies. Keep sucking the poison and repeating the lies and believe the bovine excrement from Fauci and the mainline medical establishment. I mean their jab works so well, right? ?
What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, it’s been proven to kill worms but it hasn’t been effective against covid-19 according to the trials. It can be dangerous or deadly to humans.
>It can be dangerous or deadly to humans<
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RIP. Bob Sagat
It is criminal for Dr. Z to ignore early treatment medication like HCQ and ivermectin. She is criminally negligent in her position and should be fired immediately and prosecuted. She is causing unnecessary deaths by censoring vital information.
Well said. This is a partisan who is purposely ignoring the data. She puts lives at risk every day she is in this position.
Mikey appointed her not Biden. So how is this partisan?
They just spew words and hope some stick. There’s no facts to back anything up mind you none at all. I’m not sure what’s wrong with the thinking of some of these people. Why are they so full of hate?
Why are you so full of denial and/or ignorance, Greg? Is it because you refuse to listen to or read anything other than the official establishment party line from the utterly corrupt and self-serving corporate media? Don’t you realize that almost everything being spewed by CNN/MSNBC/ABC/NBC/FOX is half-truths, disinformation and lies? What is wrong with YOU, Greg?
Not so. The hate comes ftom the left. She’s a partisan, because she ignored the data on Ivermectin, natural immunity, and other pertinent facts that surround this disease, and it’s treatment and prevention, long after those facts were known, because that is what helps the left, Big Pharma (their masters) and the AMA (which is owned by big Pharma). For a myriad of reasons, this has become more about money and politics than anything, and telling people to give an experimental gene therapy to KIDS, who are at a much greater risk of cardiac issues from the gene therapy than they are from Covid, IS not just criminal, it’s borderline Evil. So is trying to shame your fellow citizens and encouraging the sort of hate that drives lockdowns and the division that has ensued the past two years due to an inability to let adults govern themselves. The hate comes ftom the pro lockdown, mask Nazis, who don’t mind seeing children and servicemen used as Guinea pigs if it makes them “feel” safer. It’s blind worship of the technocracy and craven cowardice and virtue signaling self righteousness that is the worst of what humans are capable of, and it’s been on display for the last 2 years. They read no data, they scrutinize no media, they ask no questions of the bureaucracy and it’s mouthpieces, or the corporate shills that own them, but make no mistake they are driven by hate and fear and history will bear out that they made this time in history catastrophically worse than it needed to be.
Lawrence, the partisans are the ones still pretending health officials during a pandemic should listen to internet squawkers with zero medical training. That includes you. she is a trained professional. You’re not. Give it up.
When you go to Mat-Su E.R. And need services will you refuse her service if she happens to be on shift
Of course.
Exactly right!
If she isn’t the treating physician how is she negligent???
It would be criminal for her to go against the FDA.
Greg, the hopelessly corrupt and corporate-captured FDA are the REAL criminals, during this entire farce of a pandemic and long before.
You mean the COVID cold. or Covid Light 19…Layering will not protect you from this highly spreading short lived new named disease. It seems that if we named the cold from yesteryears we would have the same sort of reaction. Your choice to layer just like going out in the Cold. If it is -5 and I will be outside for a while I put a cold weather mask on of not my choice. Freedom is back in style and it begins with you are not the boss of me.
Its just like the weather you can’t stop the climate from changing and you can’t stop a virus from spreading, you can only treat it. Half the hospitalized were in for something else and it is important to list the co-morbidities. It would be interesting to see how close Delta flu as far as infections and how close the common cold is to Omnicron. We never tested just treated these diseases in the past and deaths goes we need to list with and off and realize that we did all this for 70,000 deaths most of which were not treated only VAXED.. We need to change the focus to treatment and put the real rates into perspective as the FEAR is the new Climate Change for the Democrat party and we are not afraid of this disease it has been two years get rid of your silly mandates and requirements and watch the rates drop and go away as a seasonal disease. We know what works and what does not. So stop politicising this and watch and treat disease as we did before 2019.
Well said. Covid fear-porn has approx 1/4 totally hypnotized by this psyop. And another 1/4 just going along for the ride and not paying any attention.
Q: What do you get when you combine politics and medicine?
A: Politics
And the rest like yourself couldn’t be convinced to run out of a burning building. Call it political hate, or always finger wagging or I don’t know what motivates you guys.
Greg, face it, the “burning building” of imminent danger is what YOU jabsters find yourselves in, now.
Not so. Come on in…the water is fine. Or not. Makes no difference to me.
Oh Alaska legislators already oassed the FEMA Green Spaces law layer. They forget to mention it. It is draconiam and furtive. Ask them about this enactment. They are not innocents.
Paxlovid, the Pfizer experimental drug , 120 doses of 65000 sent to Alaska. Who determines what person is given one of the 120 doses? The US paid $5.29 Billion to Pfizer for this experimental drug. However, it is free–no cost to US people. Compared to Ivermectin (which is banned for Physicians to order) at 56 cents a pill , Paxlovid is $630 a treatment. Thank goodness people in the south can sometimes have Ivermectin ordered by their Dr. My granddaughter (not vaccinated)was diagnosed with covid. She took Ivermectin as prescribed by her physician . Her temperature of 102 broke in 4 hours and her symptoms the next day were minimal. Thank you Dr. Zink for letting me know that although I am vaccinated or have natural immunity that I am more susceptible to the omicron virus.
Any “health professional” that infers you can “avoid” a virus that is already embedded in a population is either insane, stupid, or a liar.
Thank-you Dr Zink for your non-biased Covid-19 variant status and treatment dialogue.
Your sarcasm here is delicious, Frank.
Oh, wait, you actually BELIEVE what you wrote?
Why not Jeff, I believe every word that I write. I find it hard to believe that you actually believe some of the stuff that you write down but you’re entitled to it be at fact or fiction.
Why not, Greg? Because Dr. Zink, just like Dr. Fauci-Mengele, is hopelessly compromised by politics and regulatory capture by the giant pharmaceutical corporations. She has been propagating the many lies surrounding the Wuhan Virus and the (non-)vaccines, just as every other establishment-beholden doctors and bureaucrats.
GF, it is no use. Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved — indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never should one try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
Nom, you are correct, except in the target of your diatribe, which would be you and the rest of the Krazy Kovidian Kult.
Margaret, Ivermectin can be ordered through Mexican Pharmacy outlets. Lately though it seems that pressure has been applied by your Government to stop the importation of Ivermectin. Funny that. Chi-Com Fentanyl seems to make its way across the Southern border, but not life saving drugs. ?
Welcome to the Biden Regime.
Not anymore. The US postal service is searching for and pulling parcels that contain invermectin.
It’s sad when your own government wants you dead.
Order it from India, they are sensitive and send you parcels of garments. Even if you order(ed) it from Mexico, some of them still ship from India.
US postal is doing no such thing. The government may want you dead but you can get around it.
Don’t let that deter you. I got mine through the USPS from India. It was clearly packaged to say it contained medicine and Customs didn’t open or seize it.
Total fiction. The post office is it doing that. I’m not sure why they’d want you dead either you can’t pay taxes if you’re dead. Just more fantasy Make-Believe blow hard spouting. It’s becoming laughable on here.
This site continues to be the perfect balance to r/anchorage on Reddit. My two cents about this report is no one can get it right 100% of the time when it’s a moving target. Dr Zink is doing pretty good though. She correctly hesitates on saying how much of the current wave is Omicron because the confirmation of test results is a couple weeks away but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck… I myself am a little disappointed by the jump in hospitalizations and expect that number to reach three digits by the next report on Monday. That’s not so good but I’m an optimist and see national data indicating big cities may have peaked and Anchorage will follow the patterns peaking before the end of the month.
She never gets it right, shes a shill for Franken-Fauci. If she says it, i do not believe it.
She counts people getting tested, many of these are mandatory by employers or for travel.
Reality check, demoncrats are all in supporting Phizer and their recommendationsz and are not interested in actual science. Withholding actual medicine that works…
Get real, you have fallen for the fake franken fauci story.
Wow did I call it wrong. The numbers came out and hospitalizations are only at 80 and the numbers dropped lower each of the four days. Fingers crossed this is a trend.
‘https://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/epi/id/pages/covid-19/outpatienttreatment.aspx?fbclid=IwAR21WLxeNwP1pLG0RElReAugL8XEqJVkJolpd75nGYrvepNZbktK4YMOF3A’
Dr Zink put this up in FB yesterday, well into posts, not as part of the initial.
This is the first reasonably comprehensive document that has come out of her office as to treatment, therapeutics, etc. since the start.
I question a lot of this document from what is stated i.e. continued attack on HCQ and Ivermectin, nothing about Regeneron but the other that has a history of not working in the hospital setting and has history of serious side effects, i.e. kidney shutdown!
Yet this is better than the binary approach of vaccine and masks!
Zink states., “Thankfully, we do expect in general to see more mild disease with Omicron, both because of the nature of the virus as well as many Alaskans either being vaccinated or previously having had COVID,”
It sounds like she is admitting natural immunity is effective. Unlike so many of her peers who do all they can to ignore that fact.
She goes on “….. Layered prevention helps protect against severe disease, and if you are ill, talk to your provider about treatment options,”.
Given Biden and his puppeteers have eliminated all effective treatment options from accessibility this is simply lip service as we no longer have viable treatment options. Treatment options that also were effective for the myriads of vaccinated that are still getting Covid.
The despotic Biden administration have now taken control of the monoclonal antibody treatment supply and are restricting to point it is not available despite its huge effectiveness. Many of our family members and friends have been successfully treated – some of them vaccinated and some not. Worked for all. The Biden administration are criminals of the worst order.
The absolute LAST thing anyone should do is take advice from Alaska Health or that Zink person. If they tell you to do something, if you’re wise you will do exactly NOT that. I’d go so far as to say to do the opposite!
Why?
Because I want to live.
Then stop running around like Chicken Little claiming the sky is falling. Stop being manipulated by the fools on here. Do yourself a favor and do your own research and come up with your own educated decision. But by all means, when the building you’re in is on fire, run out of it.