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DVIDS - News - Alaska Air National Guard, civil SAR partners rescue injured hiker from snow slide

12 JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing partnered with multiple civil search and rescue partners to rescue a hiker injured in a fall on May 26 near Kennicott, Alaska. National Park Service contacted the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at 6:20 p.m. on May 26 to notify them of the incident and request a hoist-capable aircraft be on standby. Snow conditions and steep terrain on Donoho Mountain made it impossible for the National Park Service A-Star helicopter to reach the injured hiker, and at 8:05 p.m. the NPS requested Air National Guard support. “The patient lost footing and rolled hundreds of feet down a snow-covered slope near Donoho Peak in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve,” said Park Ranger and Incident Commander Stephens Harper. “The fall triggered a snow slide which then carried the patient over a cliff into a ravine.”

Alaska DHSS releases results from statewide COVID-19 vaccine survey

Alaska DHSS releases results from statewide COVID-19 vaccine survey Daniella Rivera © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV A bottle of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine is prepped for a staff member at Alaska Regional Hospital. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services released results from a statewide COVID-19 vaccine survey Thursday. A bulletin from the Section of Epidemiology noted, “As Alaska’s vaccination rate has slowed, public health and medical professionals seek to further understand motivations and barriers to vaccination, as well as the types of questions and concerns Alaskans have about COVID-19 vaccines.” More than half of survey participants said they had already been vaccinated or had booked a COVID-19 vaccine appointment while other respondents said they would definitely not be getting vaccinated, but Alaska Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink said close to 25% identified themselves as hesitant but open to learning

Healthy Living: Why hand hygiene is important

Healthy Living: Why hand hygiene is important Ariane Aramburo © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV Alaska Regional Hospital Infection Prevention Coordinator Jenny Mayo and her team conducted an experiment to discover how important it is to hand wash. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska Regional Hospital Infection Prevention Coordinator Jenny Mayo and her team conducted an experiment to discover how important hand washing is by placing an unwashed handprint in a petri dish and letting it sit for four days. “We had one of our microbiology techs without washing her hands, just do an imprint on the plate, then we incubate it, which is just putting it in a warm environment and see what it grows,” Mayo said, and noted that tiny circles and clusters of bacteria appeared following the experiment. “Each little circle represents a bacterial colony, so lots and lots of bacteria all in one spot.”

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