Author: Kevin Draper
The virus is surging in Alaska’s interior, straining a Fairbanks hospital.
New cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks in the borough that includes the city, and the positivity rate had soared to about 10 percent.
Despite new C.D.C. mask guidance, the U.S. patchwork of mandates will take time to unravel.
Mask mandates are often the last pandemic public health order to be lifted, as stay-at-home orders and forced business closures become a thing of the past.