Add now Alaska to the list of states whose health systems are overwhelmed with covid cases.
As of September 22, there were 209 people hospitalized with covid, among the highest number of patient beds since the start of the pandemic. And 92% are unvaccinated. Care is being rationed.
Nurses and other professionals will be arriving next week under an $87 million contract with a health services company.
Cost of vaccine: $20.
60% of the monoclonal antibodies used in Florida went to vaccinated people.
What??!! You can’t come in here at this point and make a level headed observation!!
(Just kidding.)
I would certainly like to know why vaccine efficacy in prevention of serious disease seems to be so much better in some states than others, even after allowing for the variations in % of states’ populations vaccinated.
209 cases are overwhelming the healthcare systems in the whole state of Alaska?
That doesn’t even make sense.
Alaska is one of the few States that does not seem to have peaked yet, for the Delta wave. Then they will still have a few more weeks of lag for hospitalizations and deaths after the case peak.
Alaska is also one of the few places in the USA, where this Delta wave is bigger than last Winter’s wave.
Probably because the prior waves were not as extensive, and vaccination is relatively low, there is/was more fuel remaining for the Delta wildfire. They are going to have to take their medicine the hard way, through infection more than vaccination. One way or the other people are going to have to develop immunity.
The NorthEast (like NY) got hit hard in earlier waves, and has relatively high vaccination. They may get a seasonal surge, but it is likely going to be relatively weaker (especially for hospitalizations and deaths), because there is just little fresh meat remaining for the virus.