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TANACROSS — One Alaska Native village knew what to do to keep out COVID-19. They put up a gate on the only road into town and guarded it round the

The state’s largest hospital is overwhelmed with patients and was the first weeks ago to declare crisis-of-care protocols, meaning doctors are sometimes prioritizing care based on who has the best odds of survival.

TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — One Alaska Native village knew what to do to keep out COVID-19. They put up a gate on the only road into town and guarded it round the clock. It was the same idea used a century ago in some isolated Indigenous villages to protect people from outsiders during another deadly pandemic — the Spanish flu.

TANACROSS, Alaska—One Alaska Native village knew what to do to keep out Covid-19. They put up a gate on the only road into town and guarded it round the clock. It was the same idea used a century ago in some isolated Indigenous villages to protect people from outsiders during…

"If somebody gets sick around there, theres no place to take them," said Alfred Jonathan, an elder in the Athabascan village Tanacross.

TANACROSS, Alaska -- One Alaska Native village knew what to do to keep out COVID-19. They put up a gate on the only road into town and guarded it round the c...

TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — One Alaska Native village knew what to do to keep out COVID-19. They put up a gate on the only road into town and guarded it

TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — One Alaska Native village knew what to do to keep out COVID-19. They put up a gate on the only road into town and guarded it

The delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading across Alaska, driving a sharp uptick in infections and posing risks for remote hospitals.

Alaska is experiencing one of the nation's sharpest upticks in COVID-19 infections, and it's worsened by a limited health care system that largely relies on hospitals in its biggest city.