Alaska’s chief medical officer expects a dramatic increase in the number of new COVID-19 infections reported for the last 48 hours, but that news is paired with optimism that less severe disease from omicron will prevent an influx and strain on hospitals.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The state of Alaska’s chief medical officer expects a dramatic increase in the number of new COVID-19 infections reported for the last 48 hours, she said in a media availability Thursday afternoon. But that news is paired with optimism that less severe disease from omicron will prevent the influx and strain on hospitals that the state and nation saw in previous waves.
“We have seen a really significant change in cases and case reporting even in the last 24 hours,” Zink said. “I think it’s pretty clear that omicron is here and spreading across the state of Alaska.”over the last week compared to the week of Dec. 22-28. “What we’ve found over the past five days or so is anything from 80 to 95% of the samples that are tested are coming back positive for that target failure,” McLaughlin said Thursday. “indicating that the vast, vast majority of cases are omicron.”, according to the CDC. Now, the variant represents 95.4% of nationwide cases, Zink said.
There are also indications that antibodies from the omicron variant could help fight off cases of the highly virulent delta variant, which caused a surge in COVID-19 deaths in the state of Alaska and elsewhere.
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