LIHU‘E — Most residents age 16 and up are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, the county announced in a press release Monday.
If you are not sure if you are eligible, fill out the Kaua‘i District Health Office survey at kauai.gov/vaccine. If you don’t meet the current criteria, you will be added to the wait list for extra doses.
The Department of Health added an additional clinic date for the one-dose Johnson &Johnson vaccine on Monday, April 5 at the War Memorial Convention Hall from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. If additional J&J vaccines are received, clinic hours will be extended to 1 p.m.
The two-dose Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are already widely available.
Safeway locations in Lihu‘e and Kapa‘a are opening vaccine clinics and accepting appointments.
This is in addition to clinics at Longs in ‘Ele‘ele, Koloa, and Kapa‘a, hospital clinics at Wilcox Medical Center, Kaua‘i Veterans Memorial Hospital, and Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital, and the DOH’s War Memorial Convention Hall clinic.
For links to make an appointment at any of these locations, please visit: kauai.gov/vaccine.
Patients will select two appointments if they are receiving either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or a single appointment if they are receiving the J&J vaccine.
If you are receiving a two-dose vaccine, please make both appointments at the same location to ensure you receive the same vaccine and that your two doses are registered in the same system for a complete vaccination record.
Health officials encouraged all Kaua‘i residents who have contact with travelers to schedule an appointment before Kaua‘i rejoins the Safe Travels program for Trans-Pacific travel on April 5.
Vaccine supply is for residents only. Visitors to Kaua‘i are not eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
One new case announced
On Monday, the DOH reported one new case of COVID-19 in a female child resident whose source of infection is related to Mainland travel. The case was identified via the Enhanced Movement Quarantine or “Resort Bubble” post-travel testing program.
Close contacts are being identified, directed to quarantine, and offered testing.
Monday’s case brings the number of active cases to two, with 224 cumulative cases. Kaua‘i’s cumulative case count includes 190 confirmed locally, two probable, and 32 positive cases diagnosed elsewhere, as they received their pre-travel test results after arriving on island.
The county is offering offer free same-day COVID-19 testing weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Convention Hall. Free testing is available to everyone on Kaua‘i, residents and visitors. No appointment is needed. For more information, visit kauai.gov/COVIDtest. This test cannot be used for Safe Travels pre-travel test requirements.
For more information on the county’s COVID-19 response, visit www.kauai.gov/COVID-19.
For more information on the state’s COVID-19 cases or the state’s Safe Travels program, visit hawaiicovid19.com.
Yet another case prevented from becoming community spread by our special rules. Right now Maui has 325 active cases and Kauai has 3. Opening up is going to create a lot of sickness for our island.
with all of these options- who is monitoring to assure the vaccines are kept at appropriate cold temperatures ? MANY OPERATING RULES IN PLACE to keep vaccines viable and effective.
I’m confused.
According to the county website, you still need to be an essential worker, have a high-risk medical condition, or be age 60 or over.
I don’t think many 16-year-olds would fit those descriptions…
They’re going by politics and what they hear about the CDC. It runs down from the governor, all the way down to your state legislature. They didn’t take into account details. Such as if you are sick. Like the flu vaccine, they recommend you take it. Same for the coronavirus vaccine. Even though people may not have it, they recommend they take it. Signed by the governor all the way to the county officials. Never mind if they don’t know what they’re thinking or doing on a county level.
A lot of adults are so not eligible. When tourism comes back, we are going to have to stop supporting local restaurants, etc. because we are not vaccinated.