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State announces transition from emergency response to public health management
Governor David Ige announced today the state’s transition from emergency response to public health disease management.
April 21-27, 2022 COVID-19 update: 11 deaths, 3,370 new infections in Hawaiʻi
The state Department of Health is reporting a COVID-19 count of 3,370 new cases over the past week, and 11 deaths between April 21-27, 2022.
Transition from Pandemic to Endemic explained as Hawaiʻi’s COVID surge continues
“It’s 2022. This is the third calendar year that we’re dealing with COVID. And that might sound terrible and kind of depressing, but it actually can be viewed in an optimistic, positive way. And the reason for that is if you look across the history of mankind and respiratory pandemics, typically respiratory pandemics become endemic, meaning that we learn to live with them or coexist with these infections, about the third year. And this is now the third year,” said Dr. Mark Mugiishi, president and CEO of HMSA.