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Over 12,000 vaccines administered on South Peninsula

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The road to recovery from the Covid-19 Pandemic is not a straight or consistant path. While coronavirus vaccines are available at a half-dozen spots in Homer, for free, the numbers of people vaccinated here is only growing slowly.
    On the Covid Brief with Kathleen Gustafson, Alaska Public Health Nurse Lorne Carroll compared national numbers with those in the state.
    “We've seen a decrease of 6 percent currently compared to about seven days ago. And that's countrywide. So that's pretty amazing,” he said. “And if you compare that to our highest peak back in January, that's a decrease of 95 percent. Here in Alaska, the overall number of reported cases has increased just a little bit since last week. And the number of cases is held steady or declined to most boroughs and  census areas of the state. So we're seeing about 80 or 90 new cases per day. And we're seeing that mostly in seafood industry and in other industries as well.”
    Carroll agreed that the Southern Peninsula could be doing better.
    “There's room for improvement across the board. But I think the take home is we're still moving in the right direction. In terms of the entire state, 45 percent of the entire population has received one dose and 41 percent of all folks statewide are fully vaccinated. So that's great,” Carroll said. “And down here on the Kenai Peninsula region, Seward over to Nikiski and cleared down to Nanwalek and Port Graham, 42 percent of folks are fully vaccinated. With all of our partners combined together we have given significantly over 12,000, does this so far. And that's out of a population of about 14,800.”
    Carroll said that Covid is currently the most-studied thing in the world, and facts about the disease and vaccines are close at hand.
    “And so when thinking about how can I access information and good information, the good thing about science or evidence-based literature is it makes inferences or conclusions based upon evidence. So that's a lot more viable than what Lorne Carroll says, or the guy with the beard that works down there next to Two Sisters,” Carroll said. “Two places where you can actually find to get your hands on specific data, CDC has a COVID-19 database that's searchable for journals. Then also CDC has a science brief and you can get routine, email updates. And these science briefs outline things like vaccine efficacy and variant surveillance.”
    You can hear the full Covid Brief online any time at KBBI dot org.

 

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