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Four hundred new COVID-19 vaccine appointments are now available for a community clinic on March 20.Â
Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center, the Kodiak Emergency Operations Center and other partners will host the clinic at the Harbormasterâs parking lot on Marine Way.Â
The clinic will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments are required, and can be made by visiting covidvax.alaska.gov or by calling 907-946-3322. Leave a message if you’re in need of help scheduling an appointment, and someone with the state health department will call you back.
Anyone over the age of 16 can sign up. The clinic will administer the Pfizer vaccine. A second clinic will be held on April 10.Â
That case was tested on Monday and is labeled as community spread.Â
No one is currently hospitalized in Kodiak with the virus. There have been 1,045 cases in the borough so far.Â
Cases have been falling in Kodiak and Alaska for several weeks now.Â
But state public health officials said Alaska is not out of the woods just yet. New variants of the virus have appeared in other parts of the world and one, called B.1.1.7., has been detected once in Alaska. Experts think the strain is 50% more transmissible than the current strain of COVID.Â
âThis is not time to let our guard down, State Epidemiologist Joe McLaughlin said in a question-and-answer session with the public on Wednesday.Â