Ketchikan’s emergency operations center announced three clinics to be held in the coming weeks. Some 1,500 appointments were posted Tuesday. That’s enough to vaccinate more than 10% of the borough’s total population. About a third of the community has received at least one shot so far. The head of local pandemic response, Abner Hoage, said a donation from the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium made the clinic possible. He said it’s something of a turning point in the vaccine distribution effort. “As of last Thursday, when SEARHC called me — that’s the first time that we really had an allocation that we felt like we were starting to become unconstrained on our vaccine distribution,” Hoage told KRBD.