City Manager Rorie Watt apologized for the frustration people had trying to get an appointment. City staff hope to schedule more mass vaccination events.
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Juneau Assembly holds off on decisions on local pandemic relief programs after feds act
“We do want to make sure we’re trying to get it into the right hands … quickly, but not so quickly that we rush ourselves into additional mistakes,” Assembly member Michelle Hale said.
New avalanche center compiles observations from Juneau backcountry
Research shows that it wasn’t mainly beginning or intermediate backcountry users who triggered avalanches during the pandemic.
Juneau Assembly considers property tax breaks for new downtown housing
It’s one more strategy local policymakers are considering toward a perennial goal to make housing more affordable in the Capital City.
After months on high alert, Juneau drops to ‘moderate’ COVID-19 community risk level
Overall cases of COVID-19 have dropped in Juneau, but there is still community spread occurring, which means that the source of some people’s infections is unknown.
Why more pharmacies and doctors’ offices aren’t ready to vaccinate against COVID-19
A lot of potential COVID-19 vaccinators aren’t ready to do it, are opting not to, or don’t have vaccines yet.
Juneau offers COVID-19 vaccine clinic for eligible health care workers and residents 65 and older
People 65 and older and healthcare workers who haven’t already been vaccinated can sign up for an appointment Jan. 15-17.
An ‘imperfect system’: Getting Alaska’s seniors signed up for the COVID-19 vaccine is not going smoothly
“The bottom line is, is that we had a limited amount of appointments, and a lot of people wanting to make an appointment,” said the head of the state’s COVID-19 vaccination task force.
Meet the first baby born at Juneau’s hospital in not-2020
Even though they spent an extra month in the hospital, Madelynn’s dad is still glad his daughter was born in 2021.
Juneau may lower community risk and restriction levels one notch next week
Officials are waiting to see if there’s a bump in case counts from holiday gatherings, travelers returning to Juneau and from the city’s latest free, asymptomatic testing event.