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3:44 Dr. Tessa Walker Linderman, is the DHSS lead for the Alaska COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force. Dr. Linderman is a Nurse Consultant for the Division of Public Health. She told reporters Monday the state health department is still in the very early part of the vaccine rollout. “We are still in Phase 1A in terms of who Alaska is vaccinating, but discussions of future phases are happening.” Federal health officers are shipping doses of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as fast as they can be manufactured and packaged. Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer says the state receiv...

Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling, bottom, hosts a virtual town hall Tuesday to relay information about the COVID-19 vaccine. Translations were available in several languages. NORWALK, Conn. — Logistics, outreach, and handling skepticism among different communities were just a few of the topics addressed at a Tuesday virtual town hall meeting about the COVID-19 vaccine. Mayor Harry Rilling organized a COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force, aimed at addressing planning and logistics, as well as communications and outreach related to the COVID-19 vaccine and their distribution in Norwalk. The task force ...

Credit Foundation Health Partners State health officials say some 26,800 doses of a second, new COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Alaska yesterday (Monday). “Dec. 21, shipments of Moderna have arrived in Alaska.” That’s Dr. Tessa Walker Linderman, is the DHSS lead for the Alaska COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force. Dr. Linderman is a Nurse Consultant for the Division of Public Health. She told reporters yesterday the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to Moderna  just last Friday (Dec. 18) for this vaccine. People age 18 and up can get it. The Moderna vaccine has at...

Thousands of extra doses of Pfizer vaccine included in first shipment are a ‘godsend,’ Alaska providers say Published December 18, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article 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. As providers around the country this week began administering the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, many were surprised to find that each vial of vaccine contain...

The first COVID-19 vaccine doses were given to Fairbanks health workers on Thursday morning, following the arrival of 975 doses from Pfizer on Wednesday. One box with vaccines went to Tanana Chiefs Conference, and one to Fairbanks Health Partners, a nonprofit community-owned health care system that operates Tanana Valley Clinic, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and long-term care facility Denali Center. First vaccinations in Fairbanks A nurse, Manuela Hitz, was the first person in Fairbanks Memorial Hospital to receive the vaccine and said she was happy and honored to do so. “I’m really ...