Five Alaska doctors recently weighed in on tiptoeing back to normalcy after being fully vaccinated.
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Cases are rising again, but Alaska’s rate of vaccination is slowing
Health officials say the state is still far from reaching herd immunity — a point where enough people are protected from the virus that it no longer spreads easily through the population.
Alaska reports record deaths as open Anchorage ICU beds dwindle to 4
The state continues to report 500 or more new COVID-19 cases per day. Alert levels in every region of the state remain high.
Why does Alaska have the country’s lowest COVID-19 death rate? Doctors explain.
Local doctors attribute the low death rate to a number of factors, from aggressive restrictions early on to widespread testing to the state’s geography.