The state health department tallied 1,967 new COVID cases on Monday and 2,414 cases on Tuesday, smashing records set last week.
"crisis standards of care"
Anchorage Assembly ends its indoor mask mandate
If not addressed, the mandate would’ve automatically ended on Dec. 14.
Officials warn of plateau as Alaska reports 964 new resident COVID cases
Alaska continues to lead the country in its COVID-19 rate, according to the New York Times.
At a crucial time in the pandemic, dozens of emergency workers arrive at Anchorage hospital
The team, which includes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and logistics experts, heard they were being deployed to Alaska just two days earlier.
Alaska Native Medical Center is the third hospital to move to crisis standards of care
The Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage said Friday it has begun operating under crisis standards of care.
Yukon-Kuskokwim hospital operating under crisis standards of care
The health corporation issued a written statement on Wednesday saying the corporation is operating at capacity and has adopted new clinical guidelines for dispensing care.
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.
The quality of care is falling in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta as cases surge statewide
In the Y-K Delta, health care providers worry that the state’s overwhelmed hospitals could mean that if someone gets injured, medical care might not be available to them.
400 health care workers on their way to help fight Alaska’s COVID-19 surge
Gov. Mike Dunleavy painted a stark picture of the state’s COVID-19 woes as a surge in cases of the Delta variant put hospitals in crisis mode.
How Alaska’s largest hospital reached its tipping point
The virus is compounding all problems at the hospital because the staff is stretched so thin.