08-30-2020, 07:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2020, 08:39 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Here's a good article with the blow by blow summary of how "How Hawaii went from Covid-19 star to cautionary tale."
The short answer? Complacently & Governor Ige. There's plenty of blame to go around. Read the entire article for interviews with public officials and plenty of finger pointing.
“Hawaii was in an optimal situation, set up for success because it's an island,” said Cyrus Shahpar, a former emergency response leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who now leads the outbreak tracker Covid Exit Strategy. “But you need to have ongoing eyes on the virus and be ready to react early when you see a handful of cases and have enough of a workforce to deal with it.”
Only a handful of states have conducted fewer tests per capita than Hawaii — a performance so dismal that Surgeon General Jerome Adams was dispatched to the state this week to announce federal support for 70,000 tests over the next two weeks. The state only has about 100 contact tracers, well short of the 400-plus tracers public health experts say are needed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/30/hawaii-coronavirus-cautionary-tale-404564
Added:
Harry Kim steps up to say he's willing to do even less than the governor. No thanks to federal government surge testing for Big Island:
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...ig-island/
The short answer? Complacently & Governor Ige. There's plenty of blame to go around. Read the entire article for interviews with public officials and plenty of finger pointing.
“Hawaii was in an optimal situation, set up for success because it's an island,” said Cyrus Shahpar, a former emergency response leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who now leads the outbreak tracker Covid Exit Strategy. “But you need to have ongoing eyes on the virus and be ready to react early when you see a handful of cases and have enough of a workforce to deal with it.”
Only a handful of states have conducted fewer tests per capita than Hawaii — a performance so dismal that Surgeon General Jerome Adams was dispatched to the state this week to announce federal support for 70,000 tests over the next two weeks. The state only has about 100 contact tracers, well short of the 400-plus tracers public health experts say are needed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/30/hawaii-coronavirus-cautionary-tale-404564
Added:
Harry Kim steps up to say he's willing to do even less than the governor. No thanks to federal government surge testing for Big Island:
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...ig-island/