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Thousands of Alaskans are playing a role in getting people vaccinated, Zink said. Curt Jackson used to employ his water taxi, the Orca, to shuttle tourists from the small city of Homer to villages across Kachemak Bay that aren’t accessible by roads. In late December, Jackson received a request to take three nurses across the bay to Seldovia, a town with about 450 residents, including members of the Seldovia Village Tribe. Planes couldn’t fly that morning because of weather, and the water...

Alaska, the state with the largest land mass in the nation, is leading the country in a critical coronavirus measure: per capita vaccinations. About 13% of the people who live in Alaska have already gotten a shot. Thats higher than states such as West Virginia, which has received a lot of attention for a successful vaccine rollout and has inoculated 11% of its people. But the challenge for Alaska has been how to get vaccines to people across difficult, frigid terrain — often in remote sliv...

How is Alaska leading the nation in vaccinating residents? With boats, ferries, planes and snowmobiles. Cathy Free © Katrina Bengaard An all-female medical crew from Alaskas Maniilaq Health Center took a sled to deliver vaccine to the isolated village of Shungnak in December. Alaska, the state with the largest land mass in the nation, is leading the country in a critical coronavirus measure: per capita vaccinations. About 13 percent of the people who live in Alaska have ...

Alaska uses boats, ferries, planes and snowmobiles to get Covid-19 vaccine to residents By The Washington Post Share Alaska, the state with the largest land mass in the nation, is leading the country in a critical coronavirus measure: per capita vaccinations. About 13% of the people who live in Alaska have already gotten a shot. Thats higher than states such as West Virginia, which has received a lot of attention for a successful vaccine rollout and has inoculated 11% of its people. But the cha...

By Michael W. Chapman | January 15, 2021 | 11:17am EST (Getty Images) Graduate students and alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)  have launched a campaign and petition to revoke the degrees earned by Harvard alumni who worked in the Trump administration and Harvard grads in Congress who support the president.  "Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes -- rooted in a history of white su...

By Michael W. Chapman | January 15, 2021 | 11:17am EST (Getty Images) Graduate students and alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)  have launched a campaign and petition to revoke the degrees earned by Harvard alumni who worked in the Trump administration and Harvard grads in Congress who support the president.  "Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes -- rooted in a history of white su...