Juneau’s first shipment of 975 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived Tuesday, December 15, and is currently in the process of being administered. Because initial vaccine supply is limited, vaccine is first available to hospital-based front-line healthcare workers at highest risk for COVID-19 infection, long-term care facility residents and staff, EMS/fire …
Over the 14-day period from November 30 to December 13, there were 74 people in Juneau who tested positive for COVID-19 (that’s down from 94 during the previous two weeks): Nine percent of the case activity was associated with one ongoing cluster during this time period. A small church had a …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting five new individuals with COVID-19 in Juneau – four are residents and one is a nonresident. Public Health is attributing one of the resident cases to community spread, one to secondary transmission, and two are under investigation. The nonresident …
Hospital-based frontline health care workers were the Alaskans to receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine yesterday. Vaccination clinics began in some communities on Tuesday and are continuing today. Distribution and delivery of the December allocation of 31,500 doses of Pfizer vaccine is also continuing today to the six hospitals …
The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly made three appointments to the Bartlett Regional Hospital Board on Tuesday, December 15, at a Special Assembly Meeting. The Assembly appointed new members Rosemary Hagevig and Kenneth Solomon-Gross and reappointed Brenda Knapp. All three members will serve two-year terms beginning on January 1, …
Capital Transit’s first electric bus from Proterra arrived in Juneau by barge today. The City and Borough of Juneau expects it’ll be ready for the public to ride in February. This will be the first public transit electric bus owned by a transit agency in the state of Alaska. In …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting three new residents with COVID-19 in Juneau. Public Health is attributing one of the cases to out-of-state travel and the other two are under investigation. Yesterday, CBJ reported 10 new residents with COVID-19. One of those individuals was misidentified …
The Bartlett Regional Hospital staff member and first known adverse allergic reaction to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. is recovering and will remain another night in the hospital under observation. She is still encouraging her colleagues to get the vaccine. As per the CDC’s recommended method of vaccine …
The City and Borough of Juneau’s COVID-19 Individual Assistance Grant Program is closed to new applicants until further notice due to the anticipation of exhausting all available funds. Program administrator Catholic Community Service stopped accepting applications as of 4:45 p.m. December 14. The Juneau Assembly appropriated $2 million of federal CARES …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting 10 new residents with COVID-19 in Juneau. Public Health is attributing six to secondary transmission, one to out-of-state travel, and the rest are under investigation. Public Health says the cluster associated with a small church in Juneau has concluded. …
