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With Maui desperately in need of federal aid as residents struggle to recover from the Aug. 8 wildfires, the government shutting down and the Federal Emergency
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Maui County has the largest amount of the highly transmissible California variant among specimens analyzed by the state Department of Health’s Laboratories Division.
The COVID-19 variant discovered in California, also known as the B.1.429 variant, has been found in 165 specimens from Maui that have been subject to genomic sequencing in the state, the DOH said Friday.
Oahu has seen 116 specimens of the California variant, while Hawaii County recorded 10 and Kauai had one.
State Laboratories Division Director Dr. Edward Desmond said Friday that the highly transmissible variant on Maui is linked to the high daily cases counts on the island. With the California variant and others, antibodies are slightly less effective, so even if someone is vaccinated, they could get mild symptoms or be asymptomatic. However, the vaccine will still prevent them from getting seriously ill or going to the hospital, Desmond said during “The Weekly Dose” program on the DOH�
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To help with contact tracing and potential exposure, the AlohaSafe Alert application launched today for all of Maui County, the first county in the state to put into use Hawaii’s COVID-19 exposure notification app. The Maui News / TERRIE ELIKER photo
Health care and emergency officials held a vaccination trial run at the University of Hawaii Maui College on Tuesday in preparation for the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution on Maui.
Throughout the morning in the UH-MC parking lot, officials and students from several organizations practiced a drive-thru vaccination model that will be implemented once distribution officially begins in Maui County.