DHSS today announced the deaths of three Alaska residents and 374 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 367 were residents in: Anchorage (130), Bethel Census Area (51), Kusilvak Census Area (50), Fairbanks (27), Wasilla (20), Bethel (10), Juneau (10), Palmer (10), Eagle River (7), North Pole (7), Chugiak (6), Kodiak (6), Utqiaġvik (4), Fairbanks North Star Borough (3), Soldotna (3), Homer (2), […]
December 31, 2020 ANCHORAGE – In January, Alaska will receive another 52,900 doses of COVID-19 vaccine: 27,300 doses of Pfizer vaccine (includes 7,800 doses allocated to the Indian Health Service – IHS) and 25,600 doses of Moderna vaccine (includes 8,400 doses allocated to IHS). Vaccine continues to be distributed across the state through a phased […]
One of the physiopathological characteristics of COVID-19 that has most baffled the scientific and medical community is what is known as “silent hypoxemia” or “happy hypoxia”. Patients suffering this phenomenon, the causes of which are still unknown, have severe pneumonia with markedly decreased arterial blood oxygen levels (known as hypoxemia). However, they do not report […]
WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Health care workers must meet all of the following criteria: Have direct patient contact, or have direct contact with infectious materials from patients; and, Provide essential services in a health care setting that cannot be offered remotely or performed via telework; and, Provide a service in a health care setting that cannot be postponed […]