Hawaii health officials are working with local pharmacies to offer drive-thru and in-home COVID-19 vaccinations for residents and caregivers of small residential care homes as Hawaii prepares to significantly ramp up immunizations statewide. Read more
Question: Where exactly are the online sign-ups for the vaccine? I am 75 so I am eligible, but I went to the Department of Health website and there is so much information there I couldn’t find it. Read more
Question: I’m a health care worker who has received the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. I have my completed COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card. Does that exempt me from any of the travel requirements, both interisland and domestically? Read more
Question: I keep seeing on the news about vaccinations at care homes, but what about those of us who care for our kupuna at home? My mom is in her 90s, and she lives with my husband, son and me. My husband is over 75. So both of them (mom and husband) should be eligible. Read more
Question: My grandson signed up for the stimulus knowing that he would be going to jail, and now he is in jail and the money came through. Is that going to be a problem? Read more
Question: Regarding the stimulus, it’s one thing for the non-filers, but what about those of us who did file taxes and the IRS messed up our bank accounts? Read more
The state Department of Health on Friday released an updated summary of its COVID-19 vaccination plan on how the vaccine eventually will be made available to all Hawaii residents by the end of summer. Read more
Lt. Gov. Josh Green on Thursday called for Hawaii residents to avoid all social gatherings for two weeks, immediately, as the number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases hit a record high for the new year. Read more
Question: Regarding the $600 stimulus payment, I am receiving just Social Security benefits and was not required to file a 2019 federal tax return. To date, I have not received the $600. Are recipients of Social Security who did not file for 2019 now required to file a 2020 federal tax return in order to receive the $600 under the Recovery credit? I was under the impression if you receive Social Security you would receive the $600 as long as you qualified. Read more
Frustration is high among millions of people who did not receive payments yet and must wait for the mail or file their taxes before they receive it. Read more
People should get some degree of protection within two weeks of the first shot, with the second shot bringing about the vaccine’s full protection. Read more
Question: When are they going to start paying the new plus-up for the unemployed? Read more
The state Health Department officially launched its new AlohaSafe Alert app, along with a new media campaign targeting Hawaii’s youth on Wednesday as the daily COVID-19 case count and death toll continued to rise. Read more
The state’s AlohaSafe Alert app, a free exposure notification app intended to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, is now live statewide. Read more
State health officials have set up vaccination hub sites at Hawaii hospitals in an effort to rapidly administer COVID-19 vaccines to independent health care workers. Read more
The IRS said the timing of the stimulus legislation, which was signed by President Donald Trump on Dec. 27, had created problems. Read more
Hawaii has administered roughly a third of the nearly 83,000 COVID-19 vaccination doses the state has received so far. Read more
Question: I didn’t get the stimulus, and neither did my 12-year-old daughter and we both got it last time. What’s going on? Read more
For the second phase, Phase 1B, Lt. Gov. Josh Green said the focus would be on about 109,000 kupuna ages 75 and older in the state, along with about 50,000 frontline essential workers. Read more
There’s growing debate about whether to change vaccine dosing methods — the time between shots or even the amount in each shot — to stretch scarce supplies and possibly get more people inoculated faster. Read more
Scientists are still trying to figure out how long any protection might last. Read more
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