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Alaska Pioneer Homes begin vaccinating residents and staff The Pioneer’s Home in Juneau. Image-DHSS ANCHORAGE – Vaccinations of the first Alaska Pioneer Homes residents and staff to protect against COVID-19 are beginning today, Dec. 18. As the first vaccines arrive in Alaska and are distributed across the state, the limited supplies are being prioritized for those most at risk, including residents and staff at long-term care facilities. The Division of Alaska Pioneer Homes Director Heidi Hamilton and each of the homes’ administrators have been planning and preparing for the vaccine’s ...

Trump Admin Reportedly Slashing Vaccine Allocations to States While Millions of Doses Sit on Shelves Image-FDA Officials from more than a dozen states say the Trump administration has informed them that next week’s Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine allotments to their jurisdictions are being substantially reduced, prompting confusion and outrage. The development comes even as Pfizer insists that it has millions of doses ready to ship if given instructions by the federal government. Coronavirus inoculation in the U.S. began Monday as the country’s pandemic death toll surpassed 300,000...