Just so happens your friendly neighborhood pede (me) has family that lives and works all over the state, including the villages
ANCHORAGE:
Business as normal.
Fact: patient to staff ratio is up.
Cause: they have less staff because of the jab mandate, tons of staff left in protest. Patient count is actually a little down.
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Fact: sections of hospitals are closed.
Cause: same as above. Don't have staff to keep them open, so they mothballed sections just for now.
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Suggested: ER is overrun, epidemic.
Fact: Completely false. They have busy nights and slow nights. Night my family went in to check it out, there were no patients, lots of staff on standby.
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FAIRBANKS
Same as above: business as normal.
Clinics: same. Any reports about the state becoming a death wasteland is nothingburgers.
Sources: two sisters and my nieces/nefews (nurse, technician, IT staff) 37 years living in-state. None jabbed!
Yep Fairbanks here, business as usual.
I worked in a 1600 bed correctional facility and at the height of the panic we had no more than 6 positives. All were on cold/flu protocol and isolated. Only one was hospitalized and he had severe comorbidities DM2, obese, COPD, drug addiction.