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The first baby born in 2021 at Norton Sound Regional Hospital arrived into the world almost a month early.
Norton Sound Health Corporation announced that RosaLynn Roxie Reamer was born shortly after 11pm on January 6
th. According to the baby girl’s parents, Sarah Iyapana and Wayne Reamer of Nome, RosaLynn was supposed to be due at the end of the month, Jan. 31
st.
Despite the early arrival, she was born at six pounds, three ounces, and is 18.5 inches long.
The littlest Reamer is now the only winter baby in the family which includes two other young children. RosaLynn’s grandparents are Anita Soolook, Max Iyapana Sr., Earl Reamer, and Thelma Evan.
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have officially arrived in Nome. The vaccine touched down at approximately 1:30pm today on the Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage.
According to Norton Sound Health Corporation (NSHC) spokesperson Sarah Richards, this first shipment included 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Quyanna Care Center (QCC) residents and staff will be the first to receive the vaccine, along with frontline medical workers.
Although there was no formal welcoming committee awaiting the vaccine’s arrival, two pilots and two members of the airport staff helped unload the vaccine from the airplane and prepare it for the next leg of its journey to the Norton Sound Regional Hospital.