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JBER leaders declare public health emergency, urge personnel to avoid places without masking or distancing

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September 18, 2021
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Navy leaders on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson declared a public well being emergency Friday and urged personnel to keep away from off-base locations that don’t require masking or social distancing, given the more and more excessive COVID-19 case counts and strained hospital capability in Southcentral Alaska.

“This declaration displays the continued actuality that JBER is experiencing sustained neighborhood transmission of COVID-19,” Air Force Col. Kirsten Aguilar, 673d Air Base Wing and JBER commander, mentioned in a ready assertion. “It can stay in impact for 30 days, however could also be prolonged or shortened primarily based on circumstances.”

The bottom has moved into Well being Safety Situation Bravo. The change means Aguilar has extra authority to take actions that may shield the bottom in opposition to COVID-19.

“If the scenario continues to worsen, further measures to guard the pressure shall be applied, together with proscribing entry to off-base institutions,” JBER officers mentioned in an announcement.

In a letter despatched to personnel Friday, Lt. Gen. David Krumm, a senior army commander chargeable for Air Pressure forces in Alaska and the homeland protection mission for the state, mentioned that the majority exposures to the virus amongst service members are occurring off JBER.

“Sadly, the shortage of mitigation measures off-base has resulted in alarmingly excessive an infection charges, hospitalizations and deaths in our neighborhood,” Krumm wrote. “Present COVID circumstances on JBER haven’t but reached the purpose of jeopardizing our readiness, however they’re rising, and our information is that off-base publicity is the first supply of an infection for our service members and their households.”

Whereas the bottom isn’t implementing any quick restrictions, Krumm mentioned he’s asking army members and households to keep away from services that don’t require masks, bodily distancing and different mitigation measures.

For the time being, neither Anchorage nor the Mat-Su have masks necessities or capability restrictions for companies or gatherings in place. In Anchorage, Mayor Dave Bronson has continued to say no pursuing such measures.

COVID-19 circumstances and hospitalizations in Anchorage and statewide have risen sharply in a surge pushed by the extremely contagious delta variant. Alaska on Friday had the nation’s third highest COVID-19 case price per 100,000 individuals during the last two weeks.

[Alaska is now 3rd in the nation for highest case rate as state reports nearly 900 cases and 1 death Friday]

The scenario has grown so dire that the state’s largest hospital, Windfall Alaska Medical Middle in Anchorage, this week started rationing care beneath crisis-care protocols. Different hospitals within the metropolis and state are reporting comparable ranges of stress on staffing and capability.

Division of Protection and federal installations, like JBER, require masking and social distancing in all indoor services in the event that they’re positioned in an space of excessive transmission, Krumm mentioned.

Krumm mentioned restrictions, like those JBER enacted in October 2020 that prevented service members from visiting certain off-base establishments, might be enacted if there isn’t enchancment quickly.

“It is a message to our service members and their households that we must always do that voluntarily simply to assist out our neighborhood and to assist out the pressure,” Krumm mentioned in an interview Friday. “Additionally, to allow them to have discover that ought to it worsen, we are going to completely do no matter we now have to to guard the pressure.”

All Division of Protection service members are required to obtain the FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, and Krumm mentioned in an interview that the Air Pressure unit on JBER is approaching 95% vaccination protection.

“We all the time encourage everybody who’s eligible for the vaccine to take it as quickly as doable,” Krumm mentioned. “We have now loads of vaccines obtainable. And we now have an open door coverage for anybody right here on base to come back get their vaccines.”



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