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Downtown Fairbanks is very walkable; the University of Alaska Fairbanks is offering free shuttles to their main attractions; and multiple other activities and attractions are offering transportation services to their establishments and back.
A nurse at the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.Credit.Nathan Howard/Reuters
May 2, 2021, 9:49 a.m. ET
Dr. Angelique Ramirez, the chief medical officer of the main health care system in Fairbanks, Alaska, started the monthly coronavirus briefing in April by saying that she thought Marchâs meeting would be the last. But amid a new surge of cases in the state, one of the countryâs worst surges, Dr. Ramirez was blunt about her past assessment.
âI was wrong,â she said.
With nearly 100,000 people, the Fairbanks metropolitan area is Alaskaâs second largest and the largest in the stateâs vast interior. According to a New York Times database, the number of new coronavirus cases in the borough of which Fairbanks is the seat, North Star, has risen by 253 percent over the past two weeks. The positivity rate has doubled since March, to about 10 percent from 5 percent, and hospitalizations at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, the areaâs only