Print article Five Alaska health care workers experienced adverse reactions after getting the COVID-19 vaccine this week including two cases that were considered serious but health officials continue to emphasize that such reactions are both rare and treatable while the vast majority of vaccine recipients were fine. A Fairbanks health care worker was treated for a “probable” serious allergic reaction on Thursday after she received the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Foundation Health Partners care system. Additionally, on Friday evening, Providence Alaska reported that two caregivers who received the COVID-19 vaccine experienced non-life-threatening, mild reactions. Those incidents follow reactions experienced by two Bartlett Regional Hospital employees in Juneau one serious and one mild after they were vaccinated earlier in the week.