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The Arizona-based company vowed to work with Hawaii regulators.

Some think Hawaii is through the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but health officials urge caution as the virus becomes endemic.

Gov. David Ige anticipates the vaccine will be available for children aged 5-11 as early as Nov. 8.

Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders already face disproportionately high rates of diseases like diabetes.

Even before the pandemic, licensed practical nurses, who do much of the work at long-term care facilities, were calling it quits.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser stated in error that flu and pneumonia deaths had surpassed those from Covid, undermining the state’s message that the virus should be taken seriously.

Hawaii officials’ refusal to be more open with public health data is unnecessarily putting people at risk of getting sick.

As nurses left the profession, bottlenecks in education made it hard to replace them.

Case counts are decreasing but still high, and Ige says no one variable will determine when the state can lift restrictions.

If the proposal fails, reimbursement rates for the public health insurance program would revert to previous lower levels and put health services for low-income patients at risk.