Despite lowering case numbers, Alaska is the state with the second-highest number of new COVID-19 cases over the last week, adjusted for population.
“What we’re seeing with omicron, is the disease itself is causing less severe disease, still causing hospitalizations and deaths, but to less severe disease,” said Alaska Chief Medical Officer Dr.
“If we’re going to continue down the Greek alphabet, we haven’t heard of ‘pi’ or ‘rho’ or any of these other variants coming out,” she said.