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South Peninsula Hospital employees remove COVID-19 testing signs from South Peninsula Hospital test site Friday Jan. 13, 2023. (Photo from Derotha Ferraro/South Peninsula Hospital)

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South Peninsula Hospital closes COVID test and vaccine site

In its peak, the test and vaccine site employed 15 people, and was averaging 100-150 swabs a day.

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COVID-19: 2nd week of statewide case increase; hospitalizations drop

In the Gulf Coast region one patient was reported hospitalized with COVID-19

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COVID-19: Statewide cases and hospitalizations up

That makes the largest increase reported since Sept. 14

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COVID-19: Hospitalizations down, borough cases spike

Early Tuesday, the state reported that a data issue had delayed the update of hospitalization info since Dec.…

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COVID-19: Hospitalizations steady; cases down statewide

40 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19

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COVID-19 cases continue to spike

Cases rise in Kenai Peninsula Borough for 3rd straight week

Nurse Sherra Pritchard gives Madyson Knudsen a bandage at the Kenai Public Health Center after the 10-year-old received her first COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Fewer than 50% of Alaska kids completing routine vaccines

This was compared to 2013, when more than 60% were completing routine vaccinations

Anna Lewald, left, a registered nurse at South Peninsula Hospital, gives Dave Aplin, right, an influenza vaccine at a flu and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine clinic Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Health officials urge vax, mitigation ahead of virus trio

Health officials hope to mitigate the strain on hospitals this winter due to COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial…

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COVID Hospitalizations hit low not seen since April

In the United States as a whole, cases have been trending downward

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Hospitalizations see uptick; COVID cases still declining

South Peninsula Hospital reports zero hospitalizations and one emergency room visit related to COVID-19

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27 new deaths reported; COVID cases, hospitalizations down overall

For the period of Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, 554 new COVID-19 cases were reported

A worker with Lakeshore Glass installs new windows in one of the South Peninsula Hospital labor and delivery rooms to create a negative-pressure environment for COVID-19 infected patients. "To date, the negative pressure rooms were only in Acute Care and ER, and any deliveries by a Covid positive mother happened in a negative pressure room in the inpatient section of the hospital," SPH Public Information Officer Derotha Ferraro said. (Photo by Derotha Ferrator/South Peninsula Hospital.)

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Bivalent boosters available

CDC raises alert level for peninsula

A new sign on July 2, 2022, on Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street indicates the new times and days for the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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CDC COVID-19 peninsula alert level remains at red

At high or red alert level CDC advises people to wear masks indoors