DHSS today announced one death and 220 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 218 are residents in: Anchorage (99), Fairbanks (17), Utqiaġvik (13), Wasilla (13), North Pole (10), Bethel Census Area (9), Eagle River (8), Juneau (8), Bethel (7), Kodiak (5), Kotzebue (4), Palmer (4), Chugiak (2), Cordova (2), Dillingham Census Area (2), Healy (2), Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area (2), Valdez-Cordova Census Area (2) and one each in Bristol Bay/Lake & Peninsula boroughs, Dillingham, […]
DHSS today announced four deaths and 144 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 143 are residents in: Anchorage (89), Fairbanks (11), Eagle River (11), Juneau (5), Nome Census Area (4), Utqiaġvik (4), Kotzebue (3), Chugiak (2), North Pole (2), Wasilla (2) and one each in Bethel, Bethel Census Area, Bristol Bay/Lake & Peninsula boroughs, Fritz Creek, Homer, Kenai Peninsula South, Northwest Arctic Borough, Palmer, […]
“It’s being presented as if it’s a major alternative view that’s held by large numbers of experts in the scientific community. That is not true.” Public health experts on Tuesday evening into Wednesday raised alarm over reports that the White House has embraced a declaration calling for a “herd immunity” approach to managing the […]
A study released Tuesday by a team of scientists from Harvard University found that airborne radiation levels downwind of U.S. fracking sites are significantly elevated compared to background levels, providing further evidence that the drilling practice poses a threat to public health as well as the climate. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the study detected the largest […]
