By AlaskaWatchman.com

Despite a sharp and steady decline in reported Covid cases, the Alaska Department of Health is continuing to press residents into widespread and continuous jabs for the virus.

According to the state’s latest data, reported Covid cases and deaths have plummeted over the last two years. Nevertheless, state health officials are urging doctors to push Covid shots much more aggressively than the CDC recommends.

A Sept. 23 state health bulletin notes there were only 22 reported resident deaths in which Covid was listed as a “contributing” or “underlying” cause. That’s far below past years and nowhere near the pandemic peak.

The state’s 2023–24 respiratory summary recorded 80 Covid–associated deaths among Alaska residents. The latest total is 73% lower than that season.

State records note that the 2024 calendar year saw 58 Covid-related deaths.

By contrast, the CDC’s guidance states that all decisions regarding Covid shots should be made on an individual base, rather than default recommendations for every eligible person.

By comparison, the state’s December 2025 epidemiology review counted 1,564 COVID-19 deaths from March 2020 through the end of the federal public-health emergency in May 2023. Nearly half of those deaths, however, occurred in the six-month Delta wave from 2021.

Reported Covid cases have fallen in lockstep. The new bulletin says fewer laboratory-confirmed infections were reported in 2025–26 than in 2023–24 or 2024–25.

While the virus has not disappeared, it has become dramatically less potent. Nevertheless, state epidemiologists still want clinicians to continue to aggressively push Covid shots for all eligible patients 6 months and older, while recommending that health facilities urge staff to get the shots.

The state’s position largely ignores current CDC guidelines and relies on recommendations from pro-jab specialty societies to justify its more insistent stance. The state cites organizations like the American Academy of Family Physicians, which recommends a Covid shot for all adults 19 and older, and two doses at least six months apart for adults 65 and older. Likewise, it relies on the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that all infants (6-23 months old) get one dose, along with older children who have high-risk conditions, are around people with risk factors, or whose parents choose vaccination. A second dose is advised for moderately or severely immunosuppressed children. The state also cites the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ recommendation of one dose for people planning pregnancy, pregnant, or postpartum.

By contrast, the CDC’s guidance states that all decisions regarding Covid shots should be made on an individual base, rather than default recommendations for every eligible person.

Furthermore, the CDC cautions that the risk-benefit balance is less favorable for adults under 65 who are not at high risk.

With younger children, the CDC advises that parents and clinicians have a shared discussion to weigh benefits and risks rather than treating a shot as a blanket recommendation for everyone.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been very clear that Covid shots should not be universally recommended. The latest CDC guidelines have removed Covid shot recommendations for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.

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Despite plummeting Covid cases, Alaska health dept. pushes for widespread jabs

Joel Davidson
Joel is Editor-in-Chief of the Alaska Watchman. Joel is an award winning journalist and has been reporting for over 24 years, He is a proud father of 8 children, and lives in Palmer, Alaska.


17 Comments

  • Dave maxwell says:

    Maybe David and Linda Boyle ought to step into the “relevant realm of this subject and begin to raise the accountability argument!!!!!! In a week they are bringing in speakers who will be talking from their expertise about all the harm these injections have done! And right here in the Boyles own backyard the Dunleavy approved idiots are continuing to purposefully kill our neighbors! WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR GODS SAKE?

  • AK Fish says:

    Moderna, Pfizer (co-developed with BioNTech), and Novavax have to remain relevant as well as make money on their COVID-19 shots. During the 2025–2026 Alaska flu season (which ran from October through July), influenza-related illnesses killed 36 Alaskans, according to an annual report released in September 2026 by the Alaska Section of Epidemiology (https://epi.alaska.gov/bulletins/docs/b2026_13.pdf).

    During the September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026 Alaska COVID season, there were 22 Alaska residents with death certificates where COVID-19 was listed as a contributing or underlying cause of death. This included one pediatric death (https://epi.alaska.gov/bulletins/docs/b2026_16.pdf).

    So the flu is more deadly in Alaska than COVID-19, and yet the health department can’t help itself to push for more COVID-19 shots. Go figure.

  • PISSED OFF PAPA says:

    IS ANN ZINC STILL RUNNING THIS SH_T SHOW ???

    • Janice says:

      I was just thinking the same thing and then I see someone already said it! Lol
      It is unbelievable that so many of us know that the “vaccines” are just to unalive more humans or turn people nano-technology human sacks, and yet Alaska’s CDC still pushes this fear mongering. Sad! This is why we need to make sure that all conservatives vote and to use the ranking that 907Honest and many others have suggested in order to get a Republican governor in office.

      • kevin says:

        Janice PLEASE elucidate on your vaccine comments, preferably with some links to data sources I can review. I am honestly curious about your stance that vaccines are intended to kill people or turn them into “nano-technology human sacks”. Also what are “nano-technology human sacks”? is that like a Matrix thing? Something from Prey or Nexus? A grey goo scenario?
        *I know this may sound like I’m mocking you, but I am genuinely interested, and will read whatever information you can share.

      • Evan S Singh says:

        Janice. You do the world a deadly disservice by exaggerating your unfounded fears about the Covid vaccine. All vaccines save lives. Learn this.

        And what grammatical abomination is the verb “unalive”?

  • Dave maxwell says:

    David and Linda Boyle will hopefully read this and reorient their priorities of information to prosecution! Dunleavy and his colleagues are reducing this states population by injection right in their own backyard!

  • Proud Alaskan says:

    Man gets hit by a bus, dies from covid. You can’t make this up. Put you mask on and stay six feet apart.
    Plus there’s no thanksgiving, get togethers this year either. How STUPID, so many Sheep running to the cliff, in single file.

  • Ok in Anchorage says:

    Hey, you can get $20 off your grocery bill at Fred Meyer AND $15 off at Walgreens if you get the flu shot! A few years ago all you get for rolling up your sleeve was a free car wash at Providence.

  • Dave Maxwell says:

    Dunleavy is to blame for this! Tompkins is using it as a campaign tactic! The republicans created this mess! Thanks Dunleavy, smolden, zinc, Crum, Taylor etc!

  • Bess says:

    Is this still a thing? Are there still people out there so gullible that they’ll fall for this scam a second time?

  • FreedomAK says:

    Look up the H1N1 Swine Flu hoax foisted on an unsuspecting public in 1976. We who were still wearing the uniform of our already demoralized military were forced to take the shot. Many were sickened and crippled but Uncle Sam, true to character, was in total denial. The shot damned near killed me, a young healthy teenager. My trust died that day.

  • Jonathan Evan says:

    Still trying to take us out for profit.

  • Valley Deplorable says:

    DIDO Bro! We were lined up and all injected with that beotch swine flu jab. The next day most everybody in my unit was sick as h_ll. The elderly across the country were dying faster than one could count, and the vaccine plan ended in short order. In 1976 doctors were not being bribed and coerced by the government as in 2020. They also had more self respect than greed.

  • Herman Nelson says:

    This is on par with pushing 17th century blood letting and leaches. The wuhan scare is OVER.

  • PISSED OFF PAPA says:

    SAW A DISCLOSURE THAT FAUCCI’ S DIARY CONTAINS A REFERENCE TO HAVING AEROLOLIZING THE EBOLLA VIRUS. I ALSO SAW AN ARTICLE TODAY ABOUT A HIGH EBOLA DEATH TOLL IN AN EPIDEMIC IN AFRICA. HMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

  • Kirk says:

    Evan No not all vaccines save lives. Masks don’t help you. 6 feet is an arbitrary distance some “expert ” came up with. Trust your government? Don’t be stupid.