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The hospitalâs lobby serves as a vaccination clinic Thursday. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos
WAILUKU Lt. Gov. Josh Green toured Maui vaccination sites Thursday, vowing to keep Neighbor Islands top of mind when doses arrive and asking for patience as the state works to roll out enough doses to meet the demand.
Since opening a week ago, Maui Memorial Medical Center’s vaccination clinic for residents in the Phase 1A and Phase 1B priority timelines has about 1,500 requests a day to receive the vaccine, officials said. Also, the closed point of delivery site at the University of Hawaii Maui College for first responders and other frontline workers has had to turn people away due to overwhelming demand. Both sites do not accept walk-ins.