State orders municipalities to prepare for COVID-19 vaccine

The Haines Borough’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has been instructed by the state to prepare to administer a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.

“The vaccine will need to be administered as a ‘set’ with one vaccine initially and a second booster three weeks later,” EOC incident commander Carolann Wooton wrote in a memo to the Haines Borough Assembly.

Wooton said she doesn’t know exactly when the vaccine will be ready, but…