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    Coronavirus
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A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska.
A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Lower peninsula drops into substanial alert level
    By Michael Armstrong • April 6, 2022 2:30 am

    Six more Alaska deaths reported.

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    Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News
A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska.
A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Three Kenai women die of COVID-19
    By Michael Armstrong • March 30, 2022 2:30 am

    Omicron BA.2 variant on rise in Alaska.

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    Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News
A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska.
A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    No new COVID-19 deaths
    By Michael Armstrong • March 23, 2022 2:30 am

    CDC puts Kenai Peninsula in medium alert level.

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    This graph created by South Peninsula Hospital shows the trends in the COVID-19 and omicron wave over the past 12 weeks though March 9 based on data collected through the hospital, with information on percentage of positive cases (brown line), monoclonal antibody infusions (green line), emergency room visits (yellow line) and hospital admissions (orange line). Except for ER visits, there has been a general decline since the week ending March 2. (Graph by South Peninsula Hospital)
    COVID-19 cases up slightly
    By Michael Armstrong • March 16, 2022 2:30 am

    CDC puts Kenai Peninsula in low or green alert level based on lower hospitalization rates.

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    A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    2 more die of COVID-19 on southern peninsula
    By Michael Armstrong • March 9, 2022 2:30 am

    Latest deaths were reported following death certificate reviews.

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Clayton Holland speaks during a board meeting on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Contact tracing, masking to end at schools Friday
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 2, 2022 2:30 am

    The district announced new changes to its COVID-19 protocol on Monday

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    CDC.gov 
A map of COVID-19 Community Levels by county show the Kenai Peninsula have a “medium” community level on Friday, Feb. 24, 2022.
    CDC: Many more can ditch masks, for now
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 2, 2022 2:30 am

    The agency is now only advising universal masking in regions where community COVID level is high

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    This chart shows the local effect of the omicron COVID-19 variant wave in Homer since Dec. 22, 2021, as seen in tests and patients at South Peninsula Hospital in Homer, Alaska. Although positive cases were high, hospitalizations were low. For the week ending March 1, there was one emergency room visit and no hospitalizations, and positive cases and monoclonal antibody infusions had dropped — a sign that the latest wave of the pandemic may be subsiding. (Image by South Peninsula Hospital)
    COVID rate continues dropping
    By Michael Armstrong • March 2, 2022 2:30 am

    ‘We’re on the back side of the omicron wave,’ Public Health nurse tells Homer City Council.

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    Central Peninsula Hospital is seen in Soldotna on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    As COVID cases fall statewide, hospital feels relief
    By Camille Botello • March 2, 2022 1:30 am

    COVID cases have been plummeting in Alaska since mid-January

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    A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    COVID rate continues dropping
    By Michael Armstrong • February 23, 2022 2:30 am

    Reported death was one of 27 new deaths reported last week.

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    Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska's chief medical officer, addresses reporters during a Wendesday, March 25, 2020 press conference in the Atwood Building in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Office of the Governor)
    As COVID cases drop, long-term questions remain
    By Camille Botello • February 23, 2022 1:30 am

    As COVID-19 cases are falling in Alaska and nationwide once again, health officials are pondering what other kinds of health…

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    Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News
A sign warns of icy conditions in the parking lot of the Bartlett Street COVID-19 vaccine and testing clinic on Thursday, Jan. 13, in Homer.
    COVID rate continues dropping
    By Michael Armstrong • February 16, 2022 2:30 am

    One Kenai Peninsula man in his 80s reported to have died.

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    Aaron Rhoades, Charlie Pierce, Richard Derkevorkian and Jesse Bjorkman listen to testimony during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Borough to use grant funds for COVID treatments,...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • February 16, 2022 2:30 am

    The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved a spending plan for the funds during the body’s Feb. 1 meeting

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