The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center will operate a mass vaccination clinic to distribute COVID-19 shots this Saturday. The clinic will be at the Harbormaster’s Office parking lot on Marine Way.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) — Two cases of COVID-19 community spread were recorded in Ketchikan on Thursday, according to an evening press release from the local Emergency Operations Center.
CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021
DHSS today announced 502 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska over the past three days. 428 were residents in: Anchorage (106), Wasilla (73), Palmer (41), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (39), Fairbanks (36), Bethel Census Area (34), Eagle River (11), Ketchikan (11), Dillingham (10), Kusilvak Census Area (9), Juneau (7), Aleutians East Borough (5), Nome Census Area (5), Soldotna (5), North Pole (4), Bristol Bay & Lake and Peninsula (3), Kenai (3), Seward (3), Chugiak (2), Kodiak (2), Unalaska (2), Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River (2), Willow (2), one each in Anchor Point, Bethel, Delta Junction, Homer, Kenai Peninsula Borough South, Kotzebue, Northwest Arctic Borough, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Sutton-Alpine, Valdez and Valdez-Cordova Census Area, and two locations under investigation.
What Winter Was Like the Year You Were Born
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/6/21 at 9:00 AM EST
The United States has seen a wide range of winters over the past century everything from warm, mild years where folks could stroll leisurely through parks in February, to turbulent, frigid seasons where people had to hunker down inside. There were years where blizzards swept in unannounced, covering huge swaths of the country in blankets of snow, while other years brought hurricane-force winds to cities and towns across the nation.
The Midwest region is particularly susceptible to cold winters, especially in states like Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Michigan. In these places, residents lie in the path of both the low-pressure systems that originate in Alberta and travel southward (sometimes called Canadian clippers ) and the shortwave low-pressure systems that come from the southwest, traveling northeast toward the Great Lakes region (also cal