LIHU‘E — The Hawai‘i State Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office reported 51 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
These cases are two visitors and 49 residents.
Of the 51 new cases, 10 are children and 41 are adults.
Nine of the cases are related to travel – four mainland and five interisland. The remaining 42 cases are considered community-acquired. Thirty-two of the community-acquired infections are close contacts of previously announced cases or are tied to one of our active clusters, including 15 new cases from the Kaua‘i Community Correctional Center. The remaining 10 community-acquired cases have no known source of infection, including three cases whom investigators have been unable to reach after repeated attempts or who have refused to provide information.
Wednesday’s cases bring the number of active cases to 238, with three hospitalized, and 1,199 cumulative cases.
Kaua‘i’s cumulative case count includes 1,142 confirmed locally, eight probable, and 49 positive cases diagnosed elsewhere, as they received their pre-travel test results after arriving on island.
Free testing is available at the Convention Hall, weekdays, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.
Additionally, a free mobile testing van is available for walk-ins from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Kekaha Neighborhood Center on Wednesdays, Kilauea Neighborhood Center on Thursdays, Kalaheo Neighborhood Center on Fridays, Hanalei Neighborhood Center on Saturdays, and Kapa‘a Neighborhood Center on Sundays. Testing performed at the Convention Hall and through the mobile testing van is rapid PCR. Same-day results are sent via email.
Free drive-thru testing is also available daily at Lihu‘e Pharmacy Group, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments are highly recommended, but walk-ins are welcome. For an appointment, register online at PreventCOVIDHI.com or call (808) 635-4968. Lihu‘e Pharmacy offers PCR mid-turbinate testing. Results are expected to be provided the same day via email.
Testing is also available through your primary care physician, a hospital, or an urgent care clinic. Please contact those providers directly for more information. For more details, visit https://www.kauai.gov/covidtest.
Is the still counting “probable” cases in with positive cases??? Anyone who knows the answer please explain
Who are the unvaccinated ? Why do they resist a potentially lifesaving preventive injection ? Why do they not care to protect themselves and the community ? Why do they seek out non-scientific information on social media to confirm their biased anti-vaccine viewpoint ?
Peter, when was the last time you read a scientific paper? I am highly confident that the opinions you hold are entirely based on media and zero percent on your own scientific understanding. If you talked to some of these people who are skeptical, you would find that they’re nearly all more informed than you are about the risk vs benefit analysis.
Kali – Did you see the post from the nurse at a Maui hospital? 98% of their hospitalized COVID-19 patients are UNvaccinated! I’ll bet they thought they were “more informed “ also. Question – Are You Vaccinated????
Last time I read a REAL scientific paper ? Published in a real scientific journal ? Two days ago.
I have discussed this subject with many anti-vaxxers, none of them with an MD or Phd behind their name. A vast majority (not all) of them don’t even have a college education.
One year out of the twenty I was in school I learned how to create and evaluate research based on the number of subjects studied, the double blind (or not) set-up, the stratification of subjects, the role of study sponsorship, to name just a few factors involved in creating a study with a reliable and statistically significant outcome. Oh yeah, and then then I spent another year learning advanced stats including multivariate analysis.
So go ahead, show me a link to a scientific study which shows that the risk-benefit analysis of the Covid vaccine proves it isn’t worth getting the shot. And I’ll gladly read it and dissect it and tell you where it ranks in credibility.
First under consideration is: how dangerous is this virus? Predominantly the IFR for the majority of the population is very low, thus the need for a vaccine is also low. Secondly, it is not a binary choice between no vaccine and vaccine. There are other therapeutics available – so we must consider not only the risk benefit analysis of the vaccine, but compared to other therapeutics. We must also consider long term study data. All data available about the vaccines are less than two years old. However we have a lot of long term data on therapeutics such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. While we can apply general inference techniques to extrapolate out to future possibilities, the unknown should always carry more weight than the known. The vaccines are very unknown and that carries a lot of risk.
You might enjoy the following papers:
O’Driscoll, M. et al. “Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2.” Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2918-0 (2020).
McLachlan, S., Osman, M., Dube, K., Chiketero, P., Choi, Y. and Fenton, N., Analysis of COVID-19 vaccine death reports from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) Database.
Right there — “Because the sample is heavily biased – being made up only of those vaccinated early, namely the elderly, those with significant or chronic health conditions and frontline health service staff – the clinical results are not generalisable.”
And 33% of the reports analyzed were submitted by friends or family.
Finally, and in my opinion most telling, is the complete absence of a comparitive statistical analysis of the frequency of allergic reactions and/or deaths in the unvaccinated general population with similar underlying conditions and in similar age groups during the same time period.
Correlation is not causation, that’s drilled into any researcher pretty much from the second day of graduate school.
Just because 1644 people died within a week of it raining, doesn’t mean the rain killed them.
The IFR is about 1% and given that the R0 factor for the delta variant is about 6-7, if you do the math, if half the population were not already vaccinated we’d be dealing with a much higher death rate than during the winter surge. See the current numbers in Florida. Or re-visit how badly the delta variant ransacked India especially when you take into consideration the studies about deaths from Covid in India which take into account the vast amount of underreporting.
Thanks Peter, A great blueprint for not relying on Facebook or Fox news. Please people if you are going to make claims, site your source and please look and see if it’s some dude in his parents basement. Credibility is won, not blindly given to any source.
They just want some form of practice. Their work has no pay. Why? Firstly, what was the content? Where is the work? Why them? Then address the issue .
Peter
It’s none of your business about my medical information. Stop acting like a communist. That’s what they do…..get caught up in the frenzie. Pretty soon families will be torn apart because of their vaccination status. The information we are fed from the media may or may not be accurate but your HIPPA rights should be sacred and vaccination status should not be a means to categorize someone.
You’re right your vaccine status is none of my business. But an employer or business also has the right not to employ or serve anybody who doesn’t want to provide it.
HIPAA has absolutely nothing to do with this. You should read up on what rights you have as an individual under HIPAA before you quote it.
To all the anti vaxiers- I do agree you have personal rights, but for gods sake stop meeting in public gatherings, don’t travel, wear a mask and stay at home.
Perhaps the draconian measures the Mayor took with Marshall law last year, did little to prepare the community. I live at the beach and see daily my neighbors that don’t wear a mask, have a sense of entitlement and have blamed tourism as their first defense of Covid protection.
The numbers don’t’ lie, getting vaccinated with a FDA approved drug that will keep you out of the hospital is your choice, know about therapeutics when you get Covid should be better understood. Educating the public of options now 18 months into this pandemic needs to be better understood by all. DR Berryman- stop being Dr Fauci and help the community learn about its options. I don’t think I heard her once discuss options that a small island should now be equipped to protect its constituents.
MR. Mayor its time to add some temp facilities to prepare to treat the island sick with Covid and start with the treatment called Remdesivir or Actemra and Regenerome. Stop listening to what California does, lead.
You had had access to millions if not billions of dollars, why is there still only 11 venelators, why is Kauai still not prepared. With so many cases now documented by locals that travel inter island, trips to Las Vegas its time the community deal with Covid. Learning to live with Covid for years to come must be accepted. This is like the flood, it looks like a end in site but their is a issue we don’t see yet- Its never going away and now must make choices we all are aware of after 18 months. Travel at your own risk- Go out in public at your own risk. Stop blaming others for Covid that is now out of control caused by locals.
When will our leaders pull their heads out of the sand and start doing something – anything? When will interisland testing resume (it NEVER should have stopped)? When will these jerks start using their brains?
It would be nice if the state’s report and the Kauai report show the same numbers. This is crazy having 2 sets of different numbers. Which is the correct number of infections?
Kauai Senior Citizen:
It was disclosed quite awhile ago that the news reports have a 2 day lag. Sometimes you’ll see at the end they’ll include ‘not yet recorded’ cases on Kaua’i.
If you have a FB account you can check the County of Kaua’i page. They post the ‘real’ numbers for the day, every afternoon.
With reporting : the reason the report comes out bias, is because if the pupil played little league, most times he’ll want to stay with sports. So he’ll report someone like me. I’m a Pakistani but light color skin. Indoors. 1977. Can you see misconception? Reports