In partnership with researchers at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and under the direction of Dr. Rosalyn Singleton, YKHC participated in a national study of COVID-19 among healthcare workers. Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it evaluates the effectiveness of the vaccines to prevent COVID-19 among healthcare workers in the ‘real-world’. While the study is ongoing, an interim analysis was published May 14, 2021 in MMWR here.

We’d like to send a wholehearted THANK YOU to healthcare workers who participated in the study and those who volunteered to join the study. Your participation helped researchers better understand COVID-19 and enabled YK Delta to be represented in a national study. We also thank the YKHC Human Studies Committee, YKHC Board of Directors, and the YKHC COVID-19 response team for supporting the study. We thank our colleagues and partners at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Dr. Tim Thomas, our research staff, and the study sponsor, CDC, including Dr. Marc Fischer. 

For more information, the YKHC research team can be contacted at 907-543-6095.