Babies to 80-year-olds part of Petersburg’s outbreak
Posted by Angela Denning | Feb 26, 2021
The Rae C. Stedman Elementary and other schools in the Petersburg School District started remote learning Feb. 23 because of a community outbreak of COVID-19. (Photo/KFSK)
Petersburg’s COVID outbreak grew to 53 active cases in about a week. There have been at least three hospitalizations and one medevac.
Contact tracing through the State of Alaska is trying to figure out where the clusters of infection could have started in the community.
State public health nurse Erin Michael says the state was able to marshall its forces to focus on Petersburg.