Alaska Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink said many retail pharmacists have stopped asking customers if they’d like the vaccine because of the fury it triggers.
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400 health care workers on their way to help fight Alaska’s COVID-19 surge
Gov. Mike Dunleavy painted a stark picture of the state’s COVID-19 woes as a surge in cases of the Delta variant put hospitals in crisis mode.
Mass testing can keep COVID out of schools. None of Alaska’s largest districts are doing it.
One model found that mass testing of students could cut cases by more than half in schools where masks are required and vaccination and prior infection rates are low.
Breakthrough COVID cases are rising in Alaska. Here’s why — and why vaccines are still ‘amazing’
Alaska’s state epidemiologist says vaccines have proved better than 90% effective against hospitalization and “in the mid-to-high 90 percentage range” against death.
As state health officials lay out a plan to help overloaded hospitals, Dunleavy asks Alaskans to consider the vaccine
Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced on Thursday a series of steps intended to help hospitals deal with a surge of COVID-19 cases. They include speeding up the process for allowing licensed health care providers to work in hospitals. The state is also looking to use federally contracted workers to temporarily staff hospitals.
A frustrated Mat-Su doctor implored Alaskans to get vaccinated. The surprise: They listened.
Alaska’s vaccine data shows a roughly 80% jump in the number of first doses administered in the first week-and-a-half of August compared to the first week-and-a-half of July: 6,514, compared to 3,619.