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Honolulu Judge Drops Charges Against Former Surgeon General for Allegedly Flouting Virus Restrictions
A judge in Honolulu on Wednesday dismissed a case against former Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who faced criminal misdemeanor charges for allegedly violating local COVID-19 restrictions while in Hawaii to help with testing efforts.
The dismissal of charges came on the same day Adams announced that he had been asked by the Biden transition team to resign from his role as surgeon general, and one day after Honolulu prosecutors submitted a motion to dismiss charges against Adams and his aide, Dennis Anderson-Villaluz, for allegedly violating Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s Aug. 18 emergency proclamation, “Act Now Honolulu No Social Gatherings.”
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.
Newly elected Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm has moved to dismiss the criminal cases against U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and his aide after police cited the men for allegedly violating pandemic restrictions