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As the coronavirus vaccine rollout in Bering Strait villages continues, more and more community members have a chance to receive the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in their local health clinic. Local Community Health Practitioner (CHP) Danielle Reynolds says the COVID-19 vaccine offers a solution to one of the greatest challenges of running a village clinic during a pandemic. “Not being able to see patients if they’re symptomatic, like in person. Not being able to have a face-to-face. That’s what’s been hard because that’s what I’m used to, and that’s what the patients are used to.” ....
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The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have officially arrived in Nome. The vaccine touched down at approximately 1:30pm today on the Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage. According to Norton Sound Health Corporation (NSHC) spokesperson Sarah Richards, this first shipment included 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Quyanna Care Center (QCC) residents and staff will be the first to receive the vaccine, along with frontline medical workers. Although there was no formal welcoming committee awaiting the vaccine’s arrival, two pilots and two members of the airport staff helped unload the vaccine from the airplane and prepare it for the next leg of its journey to the Norton Sound Regional Hospital. ....