The state Department of Health and Social Services reports 5,759 COVID-19 cases in the Monday data update from January 21st through the 23rd. Those cases include 139 hospitalizations and 21 deaths.
There have been a total of 3,400 resident hospitalizations and 1,039 resident deaths. 21 new resident hospitalizations and 21 Alaska resident deaths were reported. There are currently 139 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who are hospitalized and 21 additional patients who are considered persons under investigation (PUI) for a total of 160 current COVID-related hospitalizations. Six of these patients are on ventilators. The percentage of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 is 12.5%.
Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Anne Zink said:
“You can see that the cases are really starting to become a little bit disconnected from the hospitalization, but it’s still seeing people hospitalized because of it. You still, are unfortunately, seeing some deaths but not at the same rate as we saw with other variants overall. We see that across other countries as well, but in general with Omicron, we’re starting to see this kind of separation between cases and hospitalizations and deaths, which in general, is good to see. That kind of supports this kind of less severe component.”
The current statewide alert level – based on the reported number of cases per 100,000 people over the past 7 days – is high (red) at 2175.2. For boroughs and census areas: 28 areas are at the high alert level.