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 […]
2020 marks Alaska Sea Grant’s 50th year. Over the last five decades, the program’s research, education, and outreach activities have had countless positive impacts on Alaska’s coastal communities, ecosystems, and economies. Alaska Sea Grant’s initial research in 1970 included studies of pinnipeds of the Bering and Chukchi Seas, and the uses of seafood waste. Since then, […]
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 […]
DHSS today announced one death of an Alaska resident and 217 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 210 were residents in: Anchorage (64), Eagle River (33), Wasilla (28), Fairbanks (23), Palmer (13), Kodiak (8), North Pole (6), Dillingham Census Area (4), Bethel (3), Ketchikan (3), Soldotna (3), Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River Basin (3), Bethel Census Area (2), Chugiak (2), Delta Junction (2), Kenai Peninsula Borough North (2) […]