A Fairbanks man in his 20s has died from Covid-19, state health officials reported Thursday, as local virus transmission rates continue to lead the state.
On Thursday alone, more than one-fourth of all Alaskan cases â 22 total â were registered in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Most of the people contracting the virus are in their 20s and 30s, according to the state Covid-19 Case Dashboard.
âWhile a lot of folks in our community have moved on beyond Covid, we haven t and our staff hasnât,â said Shelley Ebenal, executive director at Foundation Health Partners. âWe are not out of Covid. I know our community is tired, and I know they don t want to wear a mask, and I know they want this to be over, and thatâs great; I get it. But itâs not.â
Covid-19: Delhi Court Rebukes Indian Government Over Oxygen Crisis
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In voting shadowed by a catastrophic surge in coronavirus cases, the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost a key state election. International aid has begun flowing into the country.
Oxygen cylinders outside a shop in South Delhi. A court said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver oxygen.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
A severe shortage of medical oxygen in New Delhi, the center of power in India, has left people gasping for their final breaths in their hospital beds, a sign of government futility in its fight against a crushing Covid wave.
With local virus transmissions rising exponentially, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is reporting record-high admissions of Covid patients who tend to be younger and sometimes angrier than at the beginning of the pandemic, health officials said Friday.
Foundation Health Partners leaders provided a Covid-19 update, pointing out the record-high admission rate at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and describing changes in patient demographics.
Averaging at 10 and 11 new Covid patients per day this past week, the hospital had 12 Covid-19 patients on Friday and two more who were suspected to have the virus, said FHP Chief Medical Officer Dr. Angelique Ramirez.
âWe are really struggling right now; we have a record-high number of patients in the hospital,â Shelley Ebenal, FHP CEO and quality medical director, said.