Some remote Alaska villages achieve high vaccination rates Published 2 hours ago
In this undated photo, provided by Paul Apfelbeck, community health aide Nicole Gregory, right, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Virginia Johnston at the Yukon-Koyukuk Elder Assisted Living Facility in Galena, Alaska. Alaska s highest vaccination rates among those 16 or older have been in some of its remotest, hardest-to-access communities, where the toll of past flu or tuberculosis outbreaks hasn t been forgotten. (Paul Apfelbeck/Galena Interior Learning Academy via AP)
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Print article JUNEAU - John Waghiyi remembers rushing his cousin to the clinic in the Bering Sea village of Savoonga in December, worried he was having a heart attack while out butchering a bowhead whale. Waghiyi arrived to see elders waiting in the lobby for a COVID-19 vaccine.