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Kenai Public Health is holding an after-hours clinic Friday for COVID-19 and flu vaccines.
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KPBSD Superintendent Clayton Holland said due to the widespread availability of COVID vaccines, advances in treatment options for COVID and a downtrend in severe cases of the illness, the district is continuing to move away from enforcing masking and some other COVID-19 mitigation measures.
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Kenai Public Health Nurse Tami Marsters says reported numbers don’t even begin to capture the COVID situation in the borough, because these days, so much COVID is detected through at-home tests, which are not reported to the state or included in published counts
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According to the CDC, there have been more than 250 new reported cases in the Kenai Peninsula Borough over the last week — a 22% increase over the last seven days.
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The department reports 500 more deaths than expected in 2020, as well as over 1,400 more than expected in 2021. Almost half of those total deaths were caused by COVID-19.
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A lot has changed since then. But today, the peninsula is still seeing cases and reeling from the fallout of the pandemic.
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Starting Friday, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will no longer conduct contact tracing or implement universal masking on a school-by-school basis.
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