Updated 1/20/21, 11:58 a.m.
When it comes to COVID-19 vaccines in Hawaii, demand is running far ahead of supply. That word came Tuesday from top state officials -- including Governor David Ige.
"We do know that as we vaccinate more of our community members, we also will be able to begin to revive our economy and get people back to work," Ige said. "However, we are contrained by the number of vaccines that are allocarted to the state of Hawaii by the federal government."
Lt. Governor Josh Green said that last week, Hawaii received nearly 59,000 doses of the vaccine. But this week that number is down to fewer than 33,000. And only 19,000 of those are for initial doses -- the rest are for second doses of vaccines that were given several weeks ago.