Alaska state officials and legislators familiar with the state’s public health system say that a funding injection cannot erase years of budget cuts.
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Live updates and information on COVID-19 in Juneau and Alaska
State of Alaska is exploring options for housing people quarantined for coronavirus
The state of Alaska put out a request this week “seeking information from interested parties for providing housing units that are quarantined to allow for monitoring for COVID-19.”
Listen: This Anchorage resident’s elderly parents were stuck on the coronavirus cruise
Imagine this: Your parents are in their 80s. They both have chronic health conditions. And they’re stuck on a cruise ship with people who have the coronavirus — and they can’t get off.
Dunleavy has signed an emergency declaration due to ‘slow-moving storm’ of coronavirus spread
Anticipating that the coronavirus will spread to Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed an emergency disaster declaration Wednesday to free up additional resources to help fight the virus.
On high alert for coronavirus, services to Anchorage elders roll on
One subset of Alaskans is particularly at risk from the coronavirus – the elderly – and that has Anchorage facilities that serve senior citizens on high alert.
City working through ‘what ifs’ as the Westerdam — and cruise ship season — makes its way toward Juneau
City leaders say they received hundreds of emails and phone calls from the public about the Westerdam’s arrival. People wanted to know why the ship was coming here, what it would do once it arrived, how the city could be sure there were no cases of COVID-19 on board.