The fire department and SEARHC are helping residents to stay healthy — or at least know when they are not healthy and should stay home for the protection of others in the community.
Both are handing out free at-home COVID-19 test kits, as long as supplies last. Not only are the tests free, but they are easy to use and can do a lot to keep the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus where it should be: Behind us, not looming large ahead of us.
After Wrangell — along with the rest of the state and the country — took ill in record numbers in January, reports of new COVID cases are on the decline. That’s due in large part to vaccinations and boosters, face masks in public settings, and testing to limit the risk that infected people would unknowingly spread the highly contagious variant.
Looking at the numbers since Dec. 30, about 1 in 11 Wrangell residents came down with COVID in the past six weeks. Testing is a good way to keep those numbers from getting worse.
Regardless what you think of vaccinations, face masks, the president, the former president, protest truckers in Canada, state taxes or the size of the Permanent Fund dividend — or any other controversial topic of the day — pick up a test kit. They’re free.
Wrangell Sentinel
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