Kalaupapa residents, employees get first doses of COVID-19 vaccine The state is seeking to ramp up distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: WTVM) By HNN Staff | January 27, 2021 at 4:09 PM HST - Updated January 27 at 4:13 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Residents and employees in Kalaupapa have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The state said the vaccines were flown into Kalaupapaâs airport along with two nurses.
âIt is gratifying to be able to protect our Kalaupapa patients and community with these vaccinations. Our patients are elderly with significant comorbidities that make them especially vulnerable to COVID-19,â said Dr. Glenn Wasserman, chief of the Communicable Disease at state Health Department.
January 22, 2021
The coronavirus has now reached every county in the United States – even a remote Hawaiian outpost that was the last remaining holdout.
Until recently, Kalawao County, which has less than 100 residents and was used as a leper colony for decades, was the only county in the nation that hadn’t reported a single covid-19 case. But even though it’s so isolated from the rest of the world that basic supplies have to be brought in by barge once a year, as the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, the virus still managed to make its way there.
According to Hawaii health officials, a resident who had traveled outside the community tested positive after flying home in December, ending Kalawao County’s impressive run. What could have been a disastrous outbreak was narrowly avoided, because that individual followed the county’s self-quarantine guidelines upon arrival – as did the other passengers they had close contact with during the flight.
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The coronavirus has now infiltrated every county in the US, including the smallest one a remote Hawaiian island with fewer than 100 residents that was home to a leper colony.
Kalawao County, which is so remote it gets supplies by barge once a year, recorded its first case of COVID-19 in December, almost a year after the deadly bug emerged in the US in Snohomish County near Seattle, the Wall Street Journal reported. The coronavirus has now infiltrated every county in the US, including the smallest one a remote Hawaiian island with fewer than 100 residents that was home to a leper colony. (iStock)
All 3,006 counties in the United States have now recorded coronavirus cases
Kalawao County, a remote island enclave in Hawaii established in the 1860s for people with leprosy was the last to fall
Data released by Johns Hopkins indicated that cases of COVID-19 had reached every county in the 48 contiguous states and Hawaii
While Alaska doesn’t have formal counties, its own data dashboard for the virus shows cases in all the state’s boroughs and census areas
More than 24.5m Americans have been infected by COVID and 400k have died