Print article Visit Healthcare has been providing weekly COVID-19 vaccinations for members of Anchorage’s unsheltered community by bringing the vaccine to them. During their fourth mobile vaccine clinic, Visit Healthcare workers offered COVID-19 tests to attendees and prepared upwards of 20 vaccine doses. Food and blankets, personally provided by employees, were given to those who stopped by the clinic. In the back seat of a small car, registered nurse Emma Jacobson worked quickly to prepare the Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots. Registered nurse Emma Jacobson works on paperwork for doses of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine she drew for patients at the mobile clinic. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
It was the year history will remember, but we all wish we could forget.
The coronavirus dominated the yearâs headlines and brought life as we knew it to a halt. Thousands of Delawareans were infected with the virus, businesses were decimated, schools scrambled to find ways to teach kids online, face masks became a legal requirement, and everyone learned what it meant to practice âsocial distancing.â
The pandemic wasnât the only national story that also had an impact in Newark â the presidential election and calls for social justice were also big topics of conversation here.
In the midst of it all, the city weathered a tropical storm, the Main Street construction project was completed, Christina School District passed a referendum while going through a major leadership change, the murder of a Newark Charter School student prompted an outpouring of grief in the community, the city got two new council members, and a new high school opened in Newark.