Posted by Eric Stone | May 11, 2021
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. (Courtesy National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
Authorities in Ketchikan have for the first time raised the community’s pandemic risk level to its highest mark. That’s as at least three COVID-19 clusters, including one centered on the local high school, are driving case numbers to heights Ketchikan has never seen.