DHSS today announced two deaths of Alaska residents and 159 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 124 were residents in: Anchorage (39), Wasilla (25), Fairbanks (10), Palmer (10), Kusilvak Census Area (8), Bethel Census Area (7), Petersburg (6), Sitka (3), Chugiak (2), North Pole (2), and one each in Cordova, Dillingham, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan, Prince […]
DHSS today announced ten deaths of Alaska residents and 385 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska over the past three days. 349 were residents in: Anchorage (95), Wasilla (83), Palmer (36), Fairbanks (30), Petersburg (27), Chugiak (9), Juneau (7), Bethel Census Area (6), Eagle River (6), Girdwood (5), Cordova (4), Kenai (4), Kusilvak Census Area (4), […]
The U.S. moved a step closer Friday to having another vaccine in its coronavirus arsenal, after an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously endorsed Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID vaccine. Formal authorization for the vaccine could come in the next few days. The one-dose vaccine would become the third coronavirus inoculation approved […]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that aims to provide relief to businesses, governments and millions of Americans whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus crisis. Lawmakers voted early Saturday along party lines in the Democratic-controlled House, passing the measure by a vote of 219–212. The […]