Juneau’s 14-day COVID-19 recap: May 24 – June 6

Over the 14-day period from May 24 to June 6, there were 33 people in Juneau who tested positive for COVID-19 (that’s up from 24 during the previous two weeks):

• 27 percent of the cases were associated with a cluster involving a small daycare. To date, nine people have tested positive with two recovered.
• Public Health attributed 70 percent of cases to secondary transmission, 15 percent to community spread, 12 percent to out-of-state travel, and three percent of the cases remain under investigation.
• 100 percent of cases were contacted for contact tracing within 24 hours of a positive test being returned.
• Disease spread is proportionally higher among individuals under the age of 19 and less prevalent in those over the age of 60. There is case positivity among various racial groups (the category of individuals who self-identify as white is highest with 20), and more cases in females than males (70 percent/30 percent).

The community continues to see COVID-19 spread in the community with a higher proportion of cases occurring in youth under the age of 19. Three variants of concern have been identified in Juneau (Alpha/B1.1.7, Beta/B.1.351, and Gamma/P1). Vaccine update:

• 65.1 percent of the total population of Juneau has received at least 1 dose of vaccine and 60.5 percent has completed the vaccine series.
• 90 percent of the population in Juneau age 65+ has received at least one dose of vaccine and 87 percent has completed the vaccine series.

Read the full Emergency Operations Center Report, which included this weekly recap, as well as other reports here.