KelvinCAREsm Application Monitors Health of Alaska s Offshore Workforce, Protects Vital Fishing Industry
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KelvinCARE App created by Alaska Maritime Physicians monitors offshore workers for Covid-19 symptoms and supports responses and care
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Solution provides vital protection for critical industries that account for billions of dollars in Alaska s economic activity and huge percentage of jobs
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In a project with the State of Alaska, KelvinCARE used to track 150,000 incoming critical infrastructure workers and visitors at Ted Stevens International Airport
BOSTON, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A commercial fishing boat far offshore from Alaska would seem to be a safe place to avoid the pandemic. But with crews cycling in and out on a regular basis, the danger is actually quite high. A single, asymptomatic, Covid-19-positive worker in the tight quarters of a fishing vessel could quickly infect the entire crew and spell disaster for the
Print article Alaska on Sunday became one of two states in the United States without a formal COVID-19 public health disaster declaration and the only state without any disaster-related provisions, at least right now. The physically isolated and medically fragile state is also seeing a sharp reduction in coronavirus cases. But without the declaration, everything from hospital coronavirus treatment units to space for large vaccination clinics is in limbo, observers say. In place since March, it provided legal backing for state health orders, as well as flexibilities to respond to the virus and deliver vaccine to Alaskans. “Alaska is definitely in uncharted territory here,” said Emily Ford, government relations director with Providence Alaska Medical Center, the state’s largest hospital in Anchorage.
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The severe winter weather that has paralyzed most of Texas created a public relations dilemma for the wind power industry, with reports that nearly half of the Lone Star State s wind turbines were frozen as a result of the abnormally cold conditions.
As a result, some critics of renewable energy are using the frozen turbines to declare wind power as well as the wider cleantech spectrum to be unreliable and chiefly to blame for the massive loss of electrical power across Texas.
Yet a closer look at the situation shows that while the frozen turbines should not have been disabled by the wintry weather, the turbines did not play a primary role in the state s massive power outages during the weather crisis.
As COVID emergency expires, Alaska’s border screening becomes optional Published February 14
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Print article JUNEAU Alaska’s mandatory border screenings for COVID-19 turned optional Sunday as a statewide COVID-19 emergency expired at midnight. Gov. Mike Dunleavy said the airport action is the biggest obvious change caused by the end of the emergency, but the state expects to find new implications over the next couple of weeks. One issue discovered just last week: The end of the emergency means losing a third of the state’s $23 million monthly food stamp aid from the federal government. Alaska has been operating under a state of emergency since March 2020 and now becomes the only state other than Michigan to lack a statewide COVID-19 emergency, according to the National Governors Association. In Michigan, local officials and the state’s health commissioner have issued separate declarations of emergency to fill the gap, but much of Alaska lacks
MIAMI – Earlier in the pandemic, Alaska’s Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) saw more aircraft movements than major passenger hubs.
Graced by its geography – an easy connection point between Europe, the Americas and Asia – the airport is now reporting record cargo volume as a result.
Anchorage International announced that more than 3.48 million tons of air cargo landed at ANC in 2020 – up 16 percent from the record-setting volumes of 2019.
Airport Director Jim Szczesniak says three key factors fueled the growth: e-commerce, shipments of personal protective equipment, and cargo displaced from idled passenger aircraft.
“The pandemic has left an indelible mark on the e-commerce landscape, accelerating market growth reaching numbers not forecast to be seen in the U.S. for another two years,” he says.