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    COVID-19
    Members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education attend a meeting on Monday, July 12, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    District reports 130 COVID-19 cases in schools, 930...
    By Michael Armstrong • September 1, 2021 2:30 am

    Seward schools joined Port Graham School, Susan B. English School and Tebughna School in requiring masks due to a number of COVID-19 cases.

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    This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. (CDC)
    Officials: Kids at risk for respiratory illnesses
    By Camille Botello • September 1, 2021 1:30 am

    Although a child hasn’t been admitted as an inpatient for COVID at the facility, there have been multiple kids who have tested positive.

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District communications blog/Screenshot
    KPBSD pauses weekly antigen tests for athletes
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • August 25, 2021 2:30 am

    The district is experiencing “supply chain challenges”

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce attends the March 2, 2021, borough assembly meeting at the Betty J. Glick Assembly Chambers at the Borough Administration Building in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Borough mayor promotes debunked COVID treatments
    By Camille Botello • August 25, 2021 1:30 am

    Pierce defends ivermectin as potential virus med, proposes local clinical trials

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    A sign instructing patients and visitors on the current screening process is seen in the River Tower of Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, on April 7, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion file)
    Hospital ‘extremely busy’ as COVID patients surge
    By Camille Botello • August 18, 2021 1:30 am

    There were 14 COVID patients admitted as of Tuesday afternoon.

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    Gov. Mike Dunleavy at an Anchorage news conference on Sept. 15, 2020. (Courtesy photo/Office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy)
    Dunleavy encourages Alaskans to get vaccinated
    By Camille Botello • August 11, 2021 1:30 am

    Dunleavy emphasized that the vaccines had been developed as part of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed.

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    A portable sign on the Sterling Highway heading into Homer, Alaska, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, shows a COVID-19 safety alert. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Over the past week, 159 COVID-19 cases reported...
    By Michael Armstrong • August 11, 2021 1:30 am

    Last Thursday’s report showed 82 new cases for Homer, 14 for Anchor Point and four for Kenai Peninsula Borough South.

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    A clinic at the intersection of the Kenai Spur and Sterling Highways in Soldotna is now offering COVID-19 vaccines with no appointment necessary. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    Delta variant accounts for 90% of new COVID...
    By Camille Botello • August 11, 2021 1:30 am

    Data suggests that on average, one person with the delta variant will infect between five and eight other people.

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    Soldotna Police Department Officer Victor Dillon speaks with KPBSD Director of Secondary Education Tony Graham at the George A. Navarre Borough Admin building on Monday, August 2, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    School district doubles down on optional masks
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • August 4, 2021 2:30 am

    Masks will be required on buses, but not mandated in classrooms

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    A sign instructs patients and visitors on the COVID-19 screening process in the River Tower of Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, on April 7, 2020. The hospital recently matched the number of hospitalizations reported during the peak of the pandemic in 2020 as a resurgence of COVID-19 is reported across the state. (Peninsula Clarion file)
    ‘We’ve been super, super busy’
    By Camille Botello • August 4, 2021 12:30 am

    Local hospitalizations reach levels not seen since pandemic’s peak last year

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    A portable sign on the Sterling Highway heading into Homer, Alaska, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, shows a COVID-19 safety alert. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    100 COVID-19 cases reported for Southern Kenai Peninsula
    By Camille Botello • August 4, 2021 1:30 am

    Thursday report shows 82 new cases for Homer, 14 for Anchor Point and four for Kenai Peninsula Borough South.

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