The state of Alaska reported close to 5,900 additional COVID-19 cases on Friday for the past two days, as the number of people hospitalized with the virus in Alaska also continues to climb.
, according to the state health department. The state’s hospital data dashboard showed just nine adult ICU beds left open in Anchorage as of Friday.
Jared Kosin, president and CEO of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association, said hospitalizations are still consistently going up. But unlike during the delta variant surge in the fall, the main variable this time around is not the number of COVID-19 patients coming into state hospitals. With the omicron variant, the main variable continues to be the high volumes of health care staff calling out sick or because they were exposed to COVID-19, Kosin said.
“The report we keep having in the field is, in terms of capacity it is all about staff, and staff calling out sick,” he said. Staffing is tight at hospitals all over the state, Kosin said, but it is affecting different facilities in different ways. Some are weathering the strain without too much of an impact, while others have
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