Alaska still has the highest COVID-19 case rate of any state in the country.
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Anchorage mayor blames vaccine mandates for hospital staff shortage. Hospitals say he’s wrong
Hospital representatives say there’s no evidence to support the mayor’s contention.
All Anchorage ICU beds full as Alaska COVID hospitalizations keep rising
Meanwhile, the percent of COVID-19 tests coming back positive in Alaska keeps rising, too.
Mat-Su doctor: ‘Stand with me over a patient taking their last breaths’
At a state-sponsored briefing for parents, an emergency room doctor described watching unvaccinated COVID-19 patients die in his emergency department in the Mat-Su — a region where just 42% of eligible residents have gotten at least one shot.
This Anchorage ER nurse is out sick with COVID-19. And she’s not the only one.
“With more nurses and doctors, and everyone down to our housekeepers, out sick, that just puts additional strain on the system,” she said. “And not just in my hospital, but kind of all over the state.”