LIHU‘E — The Hawai‘i State Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office reported Kaua‘i’s eighth fatality from COVID-19 and announced 29 new cases on Wednesday.
LIHU‘E — The Hawai‘i State Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office reported Kaua‘i’s eighth fatality from COVID-19 and announced 29 new cases on Wednesday.
The fatality was a male Kaua‘i resident in his 70s who was hospitalized. This is the third COVID-19 related death reported for Kaua‘i in the last seven days.
We extend our sincerest condolences to the family, friends, and loved ones of this individual,” Mayor Derek S. K. Kawakami said in a statement. “Now is the time to come together and shift our behavior to prevent more pain in our community.”
Wednesday’s cases are three visitors and 26 residents.
Of the 29 new cases, seven are children and 22 are adults.
Four of the cases are related to travel – three mainland and one interisland. The remaining 25 new cases are considered community-acquired. Eighteen of the community-acquired infections are close contacts of previously announced cases or are tied to one of our active clusters. The remaining seven community-acquired cases have no known source of infection.
“The Labor Day Holiday weekend is nearly here. Please adjust your plans to avoid large indoor gatherings, and wear masks if you spend time close to people from outside of your household,” Kaua‘i District Health Officer Dr. Janet Berreman said. “Vaccines protect us from severe illness and death. And wearing masks and keeping our distance protect us from spreading disease. Mahalo for doing your part to keep Kaua‘i safe and healthy.”
Wednesday’s new cases bring the number of active infections to 283, with three hospitalized. According to the Hawai‘i Emergency Management Agency, there are currently two intensive-care-unit beds being used by COVID-19 patients as of Wednesday evening on Kaua‘i. Two more beds are being used by non-COVID-19 related ailments.
There have been 1,441 cumulative cases confirmed on Kaua‘i.
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it will take 50 deaths a week and emergency room tents set up to handle the case loads and those that need exceptional care, while depleting our first responders for any actions to take place. NOT condolensces or warnings and reminders.. the number of visitor arrivals with minimal cases is not a true reflection because NO ONE spending $4k rooms and food and $300 a day rentacars will be tested unless their lives are in danger. the airport is the true cluster that is not addressed. it is the spicket. and unless testing and vaccines and quarantines are monitored and in place the variant will mutate further and booster shots will need to change.. meanwhile the families of kauai’s sacrificial lambs who are dealing with a system driven only for dollars and not health and welfare will suffer the losses…instead of the corporations running the Show…. SORRY TO EVEN have to compose this letter…but its needed for islands to unite to survive. and those that think their freedom is being compromised can always move to TEXAS
That’s your opinion on the matter. YOU could also get vaccinated and stay at home or away from large crowds and wear a mask if YOU wanted to.
YOU could also move if you don’t like how things here on kauai. New York sounds like somewhere more aligned with your needs of government overreach.
Itʻs the unvaccinated residents returning from the mainland and acting as if they everything is fine
Not true, our family who is vaccinated traveled to the mainland, tested neg before coming back and got sick a few days later…. Even if you are vaccinated you can still catch Covid and transmit it.
Interestingly, most people in their seventies on the island ARE vaccinated.
Interestingly, mask wearing and social distancing has been the practice for more than a year.
Interestingly, we don’t have any discussion of treatments, only vaccination and mask wearing, and we don’t have increased care units and infrastructure to help us live with the virus.
… it’s almost as if our ‘leaders’ thought it was just going to go away, and now that it hasn’t, their frustrated with us, with our behavior.
Treatments, facilities, and resources, not coercion and blame please.
ITA Andrew S, our mayor would rather demand residents stay home, than admit thousands of tourists could be bringing the virus,
“Now is the time to come together and shift our behavior to prevent more pain in our community.”
Words spoken no doubt to comfort the grieving. But, are you really blaming the community’s “behavior” for this person’s death?
Shift our behavior to what? Are you still unaware that ‘life’ has been on ‘pause’ for nearly 18 months because of the hubris of ‘community health officers’ that think they can control a virus? It is a goal no more achievable than avoiding all contact with sunlight.
Do you still not understand that a farther ‘shift’ in ‘our behavior’ in itself causes immeasurable pain and destruction? Imagine if your final year and a half on this planet was spent void of human contact. Would that extra year and a half had any meaning?
WestsideResident says it best…”Treatments, facilities, and resources, not coercion and blame please.”
Show and tell the underlying health issues of all those who died.
Clearly decades of medical care and the toxic prescription drugs are killing the people, not the virus alone