Skagway residents 65 and older will have a chance to receive a dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine this week. A shipment of 100 Moderna vaccines arrived in Skagway at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. Borough manager Brad Ryan says they were anticipating 300 Pfizer vaccines.
“It sounds like they’re restructuring at the state to improve this process, so that things aren’t being allocated and then pulled back, or over allocated, I guess, is really what happened. So I hope that doesn’t happen again,” he said.
The municipal Dahl Memorial Clinic will hold vaccination workshops at the Public Safety Facility on Thursday and Friday for residents 65 and older. If there are additional doses, the municipality will open the invitation to the next tier of eligibility according to state recommendations. That will be frontline essential workers aged 50 and older.
So far, 50 Skagway residents have received a first dose of the Moderna vaccine last month. Health workers began to administer second doses on Wednesday.
