There was an apparent uptick Thursday of health care workers calling in sick with COVID or having direct exposure to someone infected.
"Alaska hospital capacity"
Alaska medevac planes are flying recovering COVID patients from urban hospitals to smaller ones
To make room at the busy Anchorage hospitals, still-hospitalized patients are getting medevaced to rural hospitals.
Anchorage doctors sound alarm about ‘imminent’ hospital system collapse
At a last-minute Assembly health update, doctors who work at Anchorage’s main hospitals described heart-wrenching scenes from the last week of last goodbyes to unvaccinated loved ones, nurses quitting their jobs due to burnout, and infants hospitalized for severe cases of COVID-19.