Over 600 frontline workers at Queenâs Medical Center get COVID vaccines The first vaccination is given to a Queen s healthcare worker. (Source: Hawaii News Now) By Samie Solina | December 21, 2020 at 8:24 AM HST - Updated December 21 at 11:07 AM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Queenâs Medical Center was the first Hawaii hospital to start staff COVID-19 vaccinations.
Since then, 600 frontline worker have been vaccinated so far.
According to Jason Chang, the president of Queenâs Medical Center, another shipment of around 3,000 doses has arrived in Hawaii.
Queens will be distributing some of those doses to Kahi Mohala Behavioral Health Center, Queenâs Medical Center West Oahu, North Hawaii Community Hospital and Kona Community Hospital.
December 19, 2020 at 1:21 pm
Today, the State Department of Health confirmed 156 new cases of COVID-19 in the state, bringing the total number to 20,015.
The Big Island has 21 new cases, bringing the island’s total to 1,790. The island has had 50 deaths from COVID-19 out of the state’s 281 total deaths attributed to COVID-19. Hawaii County Civil Defense reports that 4 people are hospitalized. On Friday, Hilo Medical Center reported 2 patients with COVID-19 in the ICU. Yesterday at 5:10 p.m., Kona Community Hospital reported no patients with COVID-19 in the hospital. North Hawaii Community Hospital does not provide a report.
There are now two FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines, one by Pfizer/BioNTech and one by Moderna. The State is receiving both, and has a priority list for how vaccines will be distribut4ed.
December 15, 2020 at 6:37 am
Hilton Raethel of the Hawaii Healthcare Association says vials of the Pfizer/ BioNTech vaccine should be shipped to the Big Island hospitals early next week, for vaccinations to begin.
Hilo Medical Center and Kona Community Hospital, both part of the state’s Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, have both said their facilities are ready to begin vaccinating those front line health care workers who want to receive the vaccine. Because the vaccine is under Emergency Use Authorization and not fully approved by the FDA, employers will not be requiring their employees to get the vaccine at this time. Pfizer says it will be submitting additional safety data to the FDA and expects to request full approval from the FDA within 6 months.
With Vaccines En Route To Hawaii, Health Officials Reassure People They re Safe - Honolulu Civil Beat
With Vaccines En Route To Hawaii, Health Officials Reassure People They’re Safe
As the state’s largest hospital prepares to receive Hawaii’s first vaccine doses, health executives on Friday assured the public that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and key to returning to normalcy. Reading time: 6 minutes.
Hawaii’s first batch of COVID-19 vaccines are coming, and officials want to make sure people take them.
Although most Hawaii residents will not have the opportunity to be inoculated until spring or summer in the priority line, health care workers, first responders and essential workers come first a campaign is building to promote confidence in the safety, efficacy and public health necessity of the nation’s first vaccinations against the coronavirus.