Hawaii Achieves Herd Immunity
The Hawai‘i Department of Health Director, Dr. Elizabeth Char, released the following statement on 70% of Hawaii residents completing the COVID-19 vaccination:
“While we are encouraged that 70% of Hawai‘i residents have made the choice to protect themselves and our community through vaccination, there is more work to do. Even with this rate of protection, our seven-day average case count is 130 new cases per day. We encourage all eligible Hawai‘i residents to become part of the solution and get vaccinated.”
Nearly 102,000 eligible Hawai‘i residents have not started vaccination, and approximately 117,000 Hawai‘i residents have initiated, but not completed vaccination. 207,492 children 0-11 are not yet eligible for vaccination.
More than 426,000 Hawai’i residents have not completed the vaccination.
