Print article Michael Meisake leaned back in his bunk early Tuesday morning as he listened to reggae music through his phone speaker and dug into a plateful of scrambled eggs. The 50-year-old guest of Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage had just received his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and he was feeling good. “I’m not scared of needles,” he said. “A couple of my friends had sore arms, a little pain after the first shot, but not me.” A year ago, Alaskans were first told to stay home to protect themselves and others from a strange, new virus.