{"id":77007,"date":"2021-10-13T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/covid-at-a-glance-for-wednesday-oct-20\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:30:00","slug":"covid-at-a-glance-for-wednesday-oct-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/covid-at-a-glance-for-wednesday-oct-20\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID at a glance for Wednesday, Oct. 20"},"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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Local numbers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alert level:<\/strong> 3- High<\/p>\n<p><strong>New cases:<\/strong> 20 residents, 1 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Active cases: <\/strong>About 211.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test positivity rate:<\/strong> 5%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative cases:<\/strong> 3,496 residents, 304 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current hospitalizations: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n<p><strong>New deaths: <\/strong>1, a resident in her 50s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative deaths:<\/strong> 12 residents, 1 nonresident<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaccination information:<\/strong> 84.4% of Juneau&rsquo;s eligible population (72.7% overall) has received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 80% of Juneau&rsquo;s eligible population ( 69% 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> 821 residents, 9 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test positivity rate:<\/strong> 10.3%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative cases:<\/strong> 126,250 residents and 5,153 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current hospitalizations:<\/strong> 218<\/p>\n<p><strong>New deaths: <\/strong>8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumulative deaths:<\/strong> 667 residents, 24 nonresidents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaccination information:<\/strong> 64.4% of Alaska&rsquo;s eligible population ( 53.7% overall) has received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 59.6% of eligible Alaskans (49.6% 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":77008,"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-77007","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\/77007","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=77007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77007"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=77007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}