There Are No Available ICU Beds in Anchorage According To State Hospitalization Dashboard

Here's the link to the State Hospitalization Dashboard.  [I have to move from Safari to Chrome to get to the Dashboard.  Also the link goes automatically to Statewide.  On top in the middle is a drop to to select a region.  That's where you can see Anchorage.  And remember, the dashboards change daily.

"Friday, August 13, 2021 - Slightly better than yesterday.  No new deaths 20 new hospitalizations.  Ten fewer hospitalized COVID patients, but one more Vent- 116(9).    Available ICU beds up two to 26 statewide.  BUT there are none available in Anchorage.

For Anchorage 8/13/21

I think this is the first time we've been here.  So don't have a heart attack, serious stroke, car crash, or any other event that would require an ICU bed in Anchorage today and probably over the weekend.  

313/313 new resident cases. (I always like it when my calculations match the State's number, but if they don't match I don't worry about it.  My number always = today's #-yesterday's #.  There were 25 new non-resident cases.

About 5700 test.  Test Positivity down ever so slightly from 7.1 to 7.01.  

Be firm, but patient with the anti-maskers.  They've attached some sort of emotional and/or ideological symbolism to the masks.  And once they've joined that club, there's a lot of peer pressure not to defect.  They even are willing to risk their children's lives to stay members of the club.  

Thursday, August 12, 2021 - Bad numbers today.  Three new deaths.  22 new hospitalizations.  (This makes more sense than yesterday's 4 - I guess they're catching up.)  Hospitalizations are 123 (8) - the eight are on Vents and listed as 'COVID -positive and suspected.'  That's a combined increase from yesterday of four (not 22).  We're down to 24 available ICU beds in Alaska. 

376/378 new resident cases.  We have to go back to January 8, 2021 to get a higher number (403/403).  (There are some higher numbers since then, but they represent two or more days.)  New non-resident cases = 29.  

There were about 9900 tests and our Test Positivity is down slightly to 7.1.  That means 7.1% of people tested were positive."

In addition to blogging regularly, I've also been tracking a half a dozen or so Alaska COVID numbers as they are posted.  The numbers were posted every day.  Then down to weekdays as things improved.  Then down to three days.  And now it's back to five days.  It should be back to seven days because the numbers are like those back in January 2021 and earlier.

These COVID posts don't appear here.  They are on a tab [Alaska Daily COVID Count 3] just under the WHAT DO I KNOW? banner on top.  There are three different COVID tabs because the pages were getting so long they were really slow.  But the chart with the numbers goes back to March 15, 2020.  So you can scroll through it to daily changes.  

The state's numbers and mine often are different.  Not that I'm making mine up.  For new cases and newly hospitalized COVID patients, the state offers a number.  They also include totals.  I subtract the previous total from today's total to get my number of new resident cases and new hospitalizations.  That number isn't always the same as the one the state offers.