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  • After asking Iditarod to bypass Shaktoolik over coronavirus fears, residents fix up a new checkpoint to shelter mushers

    03/15/2020 6:18:19 PM PDT · by Morgana · 2 replies
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | March 15, 2020 | Blair Braverman
    On Friday, the Iditarod announced that mushers would not be stopping in the village of Shaktoolik, a key source of shelter along the notoriously stormy Norton Sound, and would instead pick up their drop bags and straw at a hospitality stop outside town — without shelter, water, food or volunteers. The village had voted that, in light of the spread of COVID-19, they didn’t want outsiders coming in at this time. They have to protect their elders, and other vulnerable people, from the risk of infection. The decision was not made lightly. A century ago, the Spanish influenza epidemic left...