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How is Alaska leading the nation in vaccinating residents? With boats, ferries, planes and snowmobiles

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 was rough. When the women climbed aboard his 32-foot aluminum landing craft and took seats in the windy darkness, Jackson said, he noticed that the woman in the middle, Candace Kreger, was clutching a bright blue cooler.

Boats, ferries, planes, snowmobiles — Alaskans will find a way : | Alaska

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. That s 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 slivers of the state? Boats, ferries, planes, snowmobiles — Alaskans will find a way to get it there, said the state s chief medical officer, Anne Zink, 43.

How is Alaska leading the nation in vaccinating residents? With boats, ferries, planes and snowmobiles

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 Alaska s 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 already gotten a shot. That’s higher than states such as West Virginia, which has received a lot of attention for a successful vaccine rollout and has inoculated 11 percent of its people.

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