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Print article The fire was already burning out of control by the time Lauren McIver-O’Hara and her children pulled into the driveway of their Big Lake home Friday evening. They couldn’t save anything inside all their possessions, Christmas presents and 17 pets. Now McIver-O’Hara and her 10-, 15- and 17-year-old children are staying with a friend as a supportive community gathers donations, including a trailer they can live in soon. Her 48-year-old husband, Robert McIver, can’t be there to help. He’s been hospitalized with COVID-19 for nearly two weeks. “He doesn’t think that he’ll make it home for Christmas and we’re all really bummed about that,” McIver-O’Hara said Wednesday morning before heading to work at the Alaska Club in Wasilla. “But it is what it is. We want him home but we also want him healthy.”
Print article PALMER She is widely viewed as the face of Alaska’s COVID-19 response, inspired her own hashtag (#thinklikezink) and nabbed a spot on InStyle’s list of the top 50 female health care workers. But when it came time to join other front-line hospital workers getting the state’s first batches of vaccine, Dr. Anne Zink showed up dressed like any other emergency room physician at work: in blue scrubs and a surgical mask. Zink arrived at a small conference room at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center on Friday evening. It was just days into Alaska’s rollout of a vaccine that has the potential to end the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state’s chief medical officer was one of the many health care workers lining up for the shot.
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