Vaccines and a new antibody treatment hold promise in fighting COVID-19. But health-care providers face unique challenges in distributing those medicines across Alaska, with its hundreds of communities that lack road access and hospitals.

Alaska’s geography poses unique challenge in getting COVID-19 vaccine, treatments to rural areas

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Alaska’s geography poses unique challenge in getting COVID-19 vaccine, treatments to rural areas

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