As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic rolls on with many fretting about how some have chosen to avoid vaccination, the country’s other epidemic remains a largely unmentionable that appears to worry few. Almost […]
Biggest epidemic
Key to longer life
Summer is here; the salmon are running in Alaska; and the latest research indicates eating more of them could add years to your life. Scientists mining the data from the long-running Framingham […]
The mask mess
Parents of Gainesville, Fla. elementary school students forced to wear face coverings for large parts of the day sent a half-dozen of the masks in to be tested for pathogens earlier […]
Tourism climbing
More than a year after the global pandemic throttled Alsaka’s largest industry, there are indications that far north tourism is on the comeback trail. Transits buses to the Eielson Visitor Center […]
How fear dies
A year ago in Alaska, the state was averaging two to 15 cases of COVID-19 per week, according to the Worldometer tracker, and many Alaskans were starting to panic over the […]
Old dangers return
With the pandemic waning and travel resuming, people are back to suffering and dying the old-fashioned way in Alaska. Already it has been a tough year in Denali National Park and […]
Unvaxxed guv
More than a month after offering tourists free COVID-19 vaccine if they took an Alaska vax-ation, the governor of the nation’s largest state himself remains unvaccinated. Asked why on Thursday, Corey Allen […]
The good news
Amid concerns about new, vaccine-resistant variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the U.S. and Alaska, and with the disease it causes ravaging India, it’s easy to overlook the fact that humans appear […]
Fat madness
DETROIT – Traveling across America again after a year of pandemic isolation, it is impossible to avoid noticing the widebodies flooding airports. And we’re not talking airplanes here. Walking through the concourses […]
Fleeing COVID
Can you run, walk, pedal, swim, snowshoe, ski or otherwise run away from the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus? A new study doesn’t promise that you can, but it does indicate you can cut […]
