US: Doctors in Alaska making ‘difficult choices’ amid COVID surge
Al Jazeera
PAHO director says Alaska doctors are deciding which patients get hospital beds amid worst COVID outbreak in the US.
Although coronavirus cases have seen an overall decline in the United States in recent weeks, at least one state is experiencing a surge in new infections that has inundated its hospitals and forced medical workers to ration care.
The state of Alaska has reported the highest per capita infection rate in the country over the last seven days, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The US is reporting a national average of 106,000 daily new infections, according to the CDC, a 13 percent drop from the previous week, but in Alaska, more than 6,000 new cases have been detected over the past week.
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