{"id":75145,"date":"2021-09-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/covid-at-a-glance-for-wednesday-sept-8\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:30:00","slug":"covid-at-a-glance-for-wednesday-sept-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/covid-at-a-glance-for-wednesday-sept-8\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID at a glance for Wednesday, Sept. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Numbers come from reports from the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, as well as updates from the Alaska Coronavirus Response Hub and City and Borough of Juneau COVID-19 Dashboard. The city recently changed information provided in its weekday updates because of the strain placed on the Division of Public Health by the uptick in local cases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Local numbers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alert level: <\/strong>3- High<\/p>\n<p><strong>New cases: <\/strong>14 residents, 2 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test positivity rate: <\/strong>4%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative cases: <\/strong>2,324 residents, 271 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current hospitalizations<\/strong>: 6<\/p>\n<p><strong>New deaths:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative deaths:<\/strong> 8 residents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaccination information:<\/strong> 85.5% of Juneau&rsquo;s eligible population ( 73.4% overall) has received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 81% of Juneau&rsquo;s eligible population ( 69.5% overall) have completed a full vaccination series.<\/p>\n<p>State numbers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alert level:<\/strong> High<\/p>\n<p><strong>New cases: <\/strong>808 residents, 33 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test positivity rate: <\/strong>8.17%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative cases<\/strong>: 89,466 residents and 4,166 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current hospitalizations:<\/strong> 197<\/p>\n<p><strong>New deaths:<\/strong> 6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative deaths:<\/strong> 442 residents, 14 nonresidents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaccination information: <\/strong>61.4% of Alaska&rsquo;s eligible population (51.2% overall) has received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 55.8% of eligible Alaskans (46.5% overall) have completed a full vaccination series.<\/p>\n<p><em>&mdash; Juneau Empire<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent state and local figures <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":75146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[703],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-75145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75145"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}