The next phase of the U.S. pandemic? Pockets of localized outbreaks.
A sudden surge in Fairbanks, Alaska, offers a cautionary tale for places that lift restrictions while local vaccination rates remain low.
ByLois Parshley
Email
People in Fairbanks, Alaska’s second-largest city, have embraced a return to normalcy. Alaska made national headlines in March as the first state to make vaccines available to any adult, and as the snow melted into a long-awaited spring, restaurants were packed, church pews were full, and schools reopened for in-person classes.
Yet signs of trouble became apparent before the trees had even budded. Demand for vaccinations swiftly plateaued; in early April, clinics could no longer fill their appointments. In the last two weeks of April, COVID-19 cases in the Fairbanks North Star Borough rose by 253 percent, and test positivity rates doubled to more than 10 percent. Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, which serves the entire Alaskan Interior, was soon wrestling
Santa Fe community pays tribute to fallen 10 three years after deadly shooting
Santa Fe High School honors victims of 2018 shooting
FOX 26 Reporter Natalie Hee gives you a look at the ceremony held at Santa Fe High School to honor the victims of the 2018 mass shooting.
SANTA FE, TX - Three years ago, 10 people were killed at Santa Fe High School in one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history.
On Tuesday, the community held a day of remembrance to paying tribute to the fallen 10.
Three years later on May 18th, the pain slowly begins to subside. But the raw emotion that comes from saying the names of the fallen 10 out loud, hardly gets any easier for survivors like Reagan Gaona.
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SANTA FE – Tuesday will mark the third anniversary of the Santa Fe High shooting, the third deadliest school shooting in America and the deadliest high school shooting ever in Texas.
Ten people died on May 18, 2018, at Santa Fe High, including eight students and two teachers: Cynthia Tisdale, 63, Glenda Ann Perkins, 64, Jared Conard Black, 17, Shana Fisher, 16, Christian Riley Garcia, 15, Aaron Kyle McLeod, 15, Angelique Ramirez, 15, Sabika Sheikh, 17, Christopher Stone, 17, and Kimberly Vaughan, 14.
Three years later, much of the story of what happened that day remains untold, according to documentary filmmaker Charlie Minn.
Many of Minn’s more than 30 documentaries took a closer look at mass shootings across America, including his latest: “The Kids of Santa Fe: The Largest Unknown Mass Shooting.”
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