Influenza has arrived in Alaska, as the most recent graphical data from the Alaska Division of Public Health shows this year’s flu season is steadily on the rise earlier than it has in recent years.
“We have heard of facilities in town where wait times have ballooned up to five hours or so,” Jared Kosin, CEO of the Alaska Hospital and Healthcare Association said. “Right now you kind of have a perfect storm potentially, but that happening on a Monday doesn’t mean it’s going to happen on a Tuesday.”
“We’ve talked to hospitals across the entire state. Some have experienced really high volumes and patient levels and have had higher wait times in their ERs, some others are totally normal,” Kosin stated. “One day you might have a lot of people in your emergency room waiting to be seen and ultimately get a bed on the floor, and then that night you might discharge several more patients and everything shifts, and it goes from really chaotic and busy to quiet.
Infants, younger children, and older adults are groups at higher risk of hospitalization if an RSV infection were to occur, potentially leading to complications such as bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Currently, RSV is not a reportable condition in Alaska so it’s hard to determine just how many people have been affected.
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