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As a growing number of people are fully immunized, Mayor Rick Blangiardi wants to include Oahu’s vaccination rate as a method of determining COVID-19 restrictions.

The vaccines currently on the market are still effective in protecting against more contagious variants, officials say.

A Labrador retriever named Tess is helping to detect patients with COVID-19 at The Queen’s Medical Center.

Epidemiologists say including the unconfirmed cases will provide a better picture of how the coronavirus is spreading in the islands.

Six months into the state’s vaccine campaign, the next hurdle is overcoming vaccine hesitancy in the younger community, local clinic leaders say.

Gov. David Ige said he believes it’s too soon to lift mask mandates because “it’s impossible to determine who’s vaccinated and who’s not vaccinated.”

Hawaii kicked off the next phase of its COVID-19 vaccine campaign to include preteens.

The expanding eligibility pool bodes well for resuming in-person classes in the fall, Hawaii officials said.

Abortions are legal in Guam, but women have no access to them because of a lack of local providers and rules requiring in-person consultations for the procedures.

Health authorities say the island has moved from largely isolated clusters to “sustained community transmission.”