Helpful tips include setting up your medication and healthy routines in advance, knowing your triggers and figuring out ways to stay connected.
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. said health care providers were being “forced” to reuse gloves due to critical national shortages plus increasing demand in the region.
Health officials recommend skipping traditional trick-or-treating and costume parties, but some families are getting creative with candy zip lines and treat chutes.
Tuesday’s tally is the second highest daily increase the state has recorded during the pandemic.
The tests being distributed by the federal government can diagnose coronavirus infections within 15 minutes.
A day after White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said “we’re not going to control the pandemic,” a top Trump administration health official said Monday that Americans have already proven they can do that.
The number of people hospitalized with the virus, as reported by the state, dropped from 58 to 50.
Mayor Richard Tuluk suggested that the virus had been undetected in the Southwest Alaska village for a long time prior to the explosion of cases.
No new deaths were reported. Less than half of the new cases were in Anchorage.
That’s by far the highest number of new cases reported in a single day since the pandemic began here in March.
The facility will not allow new admissions for two weeks.
The seven-day rolling average for new daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. surpassed 61,140 Thursday, compared with 44,647 two weeks ago.
Hospital officials say a glitch in the way the data was entered led to the erroneous reports this week.
“The poll worker had no close contact with any voters so the risk to voters is considered to be very low,” the Alaska Division of Elections said.
There are multiple athletic teams and 127 additional people within the school district in quarantine.
The COVID Tracking Project said that it has “identified five other states with anomalies in their hospitalization figures” that could be tied to the HHS reporting problem.
The extra $300 comes atop the typical state payment, which was about $250 weekly on average before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday’s tally marks the second-highest daily increase in new cases so far, and the 30th straight day of triple-digit daily case increases.
Schools in the central and southern parts of the Kenai Peninsula are closed through at least Oct. 30.
Remdesivir had been authorized for use on an emergency basis since spring, and now has become the first drug to win full U.S. approval for treating COVID-19.
