In Fairbanks, you can now get a Covid-19 vaccine while going to the movies, walking by the J.P. Jones Center and maybe while attending a hockey game.
Upcoming pop-up vaccination clinics are part of the Sleeves Up for Summer campaign, launched by the state and local governments to increase Alaskaâs Covid-19 vaccinations. To protect Alaskans from the virus and keep the state up and running before summer rolls in, the goal is to cover 25% more people in May â which means vaccinating 18,000 additional residents in the Interior.Â
âWe are looking at new different ways to get information and vaccinations out to people,â said Dr. Mark Simon, an emergency physician at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
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We re making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. Alaska on Thursday reported 92 new coronavirus infections and the death of a Fairbanks resident with COVID-19, according to data from the Department of Health and Social Services. Alaska’s average daily case counts are trending down statewide. However, a surge of coronavirus-related hospitalizations in the Fairbanks region is straining hospital capacity there, and one COVID-positive patient in their 20s recently died, officials said this week.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â Ketchikan on Wednesday set a new record for the highest single-day case total for 2021 thus far, with 13 cases counted by the local Emergency Operations Center.
âTwo cases were determined to be community spread; one case was related to recent travel; one case was determined to be close contact to a known positive; and nine remain under investigation,â according to a Wednesday evening EOC press release.
Of the cases that were pending EOC investigation after being recorded on Tuesday, six were found to be due to close contact with a known positive, one was determined to be community spread and one was still being investigated as of Wednesday.
Fairbanks teacher on leave after ‘racially insensitive’ comments on George Floyd in class Author: Dan Bross and Robyne, KUAC Updated: May 11 and is republished with permission. FAIRBANKS A Fairbanks teacher has been put on administrative leave after comments she made during a discussion about George Floyd in her class at Lathrop High School, according to school officials. A parent notified the school of the comments last Wednesday. In a letter to parents on Friday, Lathrop High School Principal Carly Sween described the comments as “racially insensitive.” The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has not publicly named the teacher, but a 15-minute video of the class posted online shows a teacher identified as Ms. Gardner. Connie Gardner is a special education teacher at Lathrop High.