Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has expressed his vote of no confidence in the citizens of the state’s largest city and ordered them all to start wearing masks in public places to prevent […]
Saving lives
Secondhand COVID
Could the SARS-CoV-2 virus become the secondhand smoke of the 2020s? Remember how smokers got kicked to the curb because of the difficulty of designing ventilation systems that kept the cigarette smoke […]
Mask the cat
Forget the scare about dogs being potential carriers of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus; it’s cats that are the real danger, according to Chinese researchers probing potential non-human carriers. And maybe too […]
Economic doomsday?
A newly released report on the “Blue Economy” from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development contains nary a mention of Alaska, but it is stuffed full of bad news […]
Dirty hands
Worldwide, more than 1.5 million people per year were dying from lung infections – 60 percent of them caused by viruses – before the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 emerged earlier this year to spawn […]
Pray for rain?
If the future is destined to track a new, COVID-19 study out of China, Alaskans might want to start hoping for a warm, wet summer. European scientists last month linked the rise […]
Masks and guns
If you live in Alaska, there are situations in which a firearm just might save you from being mauled or killed by a grizzly bear. With the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the loose, […]
We were warned
How long have doctors been warning us about the risks of obesity? Long before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, they were cautioning against a dangerous epidemic tied to our visibly spreading waistlines. “Will All […]
Fear fear
About 2.8 million people per year die in the United States from heart disease, cancer, injuries and various other illnesses, according to the data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control […]
Perfect storm?
World events no one saw coming are taking the shine off the season when Alaska traditionally begins the steady, uplifting transition from the long, cold dark of winter into the season of […]
