Ketchikan Assembly to Consider Resolution to Protect Individual Civil Rights Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination Cards
COVID-19 Record Cards Will Be Issued to Everyone After 1st Shot;
1st Vaccine Arrives in Ketchika;
Statewide Face Masks Requested By Alaska Lawmakers
By MARY KAUFFMAN Thursday PM (SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Ketchikan Mayor Rodney Dial is sponsoring a resolution for the Borough Assembly to consider at Monday night’s meeting that will support the protection of individual civil rights relative to COVID-19 vaccinations.
Mayor Dial is requesting the Assembly to support his proposed resolution which calls on merchants and service providers to refrain from discriminating against any individual by denying that person access to goods or services based upon their COVID-19 vaccination status or failure to provide that information.
First doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Ketchikan, first immunizations expected Thursday
Posted by Eric Stone | Dec 16, 2020
Public health nurse manager Theresa Ruzek, front left, holds a box containing the first few doses of COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Ketchikan. (Eric Stone/KRBD)
Ketchikan’s first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine arrived Wednesday. KRBD was there as public health officials received the first few doses of the lifesaving inoculation.
Public health nurse Theresa Ruzek had a bounce in her step. Her face was covered with a cloth mask, but you could see it in her eyes she was grinning as she signed for the package from Alaska Air Cargo manager Maddison Swafford.
Alaska receives its first COVID-19 vaccine shipments; Ketchikan EOC is hosting a Covid-19 Vaccine Discussion
Tuesday PM (SitNews) Anchorage, Alaska - Alaska received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine last night via UPS plane. Delivery and transport of the vaccine to health care facilities across Alaska will be happening today through Wednesday, leading to the first vaccinations of Alaskans this week.
“The COVID-19 vaccine is going to help Alaskans put the worst behind us,” said Governor Mike Dunleavy. “We will begin the process of finally getting the upper hand of this pandemic and getting our lives back to normal.”
“Alaska’s Vaccine Task Force has been preparing for many months to receive these first shipments and to guarantee safe vaccine handling according to the vaccine’s unique requirements,” said Tessa Walker Linderman, co-lead of Alaska’s Vaccine Task Force. “The task force, led by DHSS and the Alaska Native Tribal Health