The Latest on COVID-19

• ​​Alaska’s largest hospital is beginning to ration healthcare, as the facility is overwhelmed by a flood of COVID-19 patients. “While we are doing our utmost, we are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help,” Dr. Kristen Solana Walkinshaw, chief of staff at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday by The Anchorage Daily News.
• The U.S. has reached a new, grim milestone in the pandemic, as 1 in 500 Americans have died from COVID-19. As of Sept. 14, 663,913 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. Census Bureau shows a U.S. population of 331.4 million as of April 2020.
• Officials from Pfizer-BioNTech said that people could expect to have some mild side effects after getting a COVID-19 booster, similar to the side effects people experienced after their second COVID-19 vaccine.