Feb. 25—Maui County has become the new COVID-19 hot spot in Hawaii, sporting the state's largest seven-day positivity rate Thursday and posting the largest number of daily cases for the second time in a week. "We're very disappointed to see more double-digit case numbers in our new daily case count, " Sandy Baz, managing director of Maui County, said Thursday. But the spike could well be .
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University of Hawaii Maui College graduate nurse Jaime Ferreira asks Helen Nelson a few health screening questions before administering a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday afternoon at the Maui Health satellite clinic in the Kaiser Permanente Kihei Clinic at Azeka Shopping Center. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos
With the arrival of extra vaccines, increased capacity at a new clinic and rescheduled appointments nearly completed, Maui Health is looking to ramp up new first-dose appointments to 3,000 next week and 4,000 the week after.
Spokeswoman Tracy Dallarda said that Maui Health is finishing “the last batch of about 1,000” of the 5,000 people whose appointments had to be rescheduled after clinics closed in January due to a shortage of the vaccine.
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A COVID-19 variant has been discovered on Oahu. Maui County Managing Director Sandy Baz stated that in addition to social distancing, getting together in outside open spaces, and washing hands, the
” . . . key prevention factor is the same, wear a mask.”
However, in an email addressed to the Citizens COVID-19 Coalition, Lt. Gov. Josh Green agreed that state and county leaders need to encourage residents to acquire and wear better masks, specifically N95 masks, and for counties to provide incentives to do so.
A new study cited by the New York Times states that “the risk of dying of B.1.1.7. is 35 percent higher than it is for other variants.” The study encourages “wearing effective masks . . .”
One confirmed case of the more transmissible strain of COVID-19 has been detected on Oahu and testing continues to determine if there are others, state Departme