DHSS today announced 190 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 149 were residents in: Wasilla (32), Anchorage (31), Fairbanks (23), Cordova (11), Palmer (10), Petersburg (10), Ketchikan (7), North Pole (4), Sutton-Alpine (4), Girdwood (3), Bethel Census Area (2), Chugiak (2), Eagle River (2), and one each in Delta Junction, Dillingham, Ester, Juneau, Nome, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Soldotna and Unalaska. 41 new nonresident cases were identified […]
At a dog training center in Myakka City, Florida, Heather Junqueira, founder of BioScent, brings a four-year-old beagle, Noel, into a room with stainless-steel canisters, several containing samples of COVID-19. Noel springs into action as she tries to find the ones with a smell that she knows will earn her praise and dog treats. […]
JUNEAU – The Alaska Senate Wednesday unanimously passed a bill extending access to naloxone, a life-saving opioid overdose reversal drug. Senate Bill 70 allows the chief medical officer of the Department of Health and Social Services to continue issuing a statewide standing order for the prescription of naloxone. The chief medical officer currently has this […]
February 24, 2021 ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) announced today that Alaska will receive 60,760 first doses of state-allocated COVID-19 vaccine for the month of March. Additionally, 32,720 first doses have been allocated to the federal Indian Health Service (IHS). IHS vaccine is managed by Alaska’s Tribal Health System. […]
