LIHU‘E — The state Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office reported 22 new cases of COVID-19 and two new clusters Tuesday.
These cases are all adult residents.
The source of infection for seven is travel-related: six mainland and one interisland.
The remaining 15 are considered community-acquired. Of the 15 community-acquired infections, 12 are in close contacts of previously announced cases, and three have no known source of infection. The DOH has identified two new clusters of infection: one in a place of worship and one in a congregate-living setting.
This is the highest number of single-day, newly reported cases since May 1, when the county announced 16 new cases.
“The majority of Kaua‘i’s cases have been in unvaccinated individuals, and we are seeing a significant spike in cases islandwide,” said Dr. Janet Berreman, DOH Kaua‘i district health officer.
”We are also finding that many of these cases have been sick for several days before getting tested and continued to go to work and attend church services. This is causing disease to spread widely in our community,” she said.
“Please, if you are sick, isolate yourself immediately and arrange to be tested for COVID-19.”
“The DOH variant report released yesterday confirms that we are seeing a rise in cases caused by the delta variant both statewide and on Kaua‘i. It spreads rapidly, and our best protection is vaccination. The time to be vaccinated is now,” said Berreman.
“The longer we wait, the more time the virus has to spread. Particularly, we want to make sure that young people are getting vaccinated, as this variant also impacts young people in a way that previous variants have not.”
Just trying to scare some people. Of course they panicked. That is why they were rushed to take further test. Then sent into isolation.
Is this sports related? Like youth baseball.
the scary *CASES* are piling up… we are all gonna DIE!!!
oh wait, only one hospitalization. so deadly, this virus…
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Yes, we will all die. Dying with covid is really horrible. My Dad did, and he was not bad enough to be hospitalized. I had it and I was not in the hospital either, but I had ‘long covid’. The brain fog was with me for over a year. The Pfizer vax has cleared it up.
I will continue to do the vax, having less chance to be ill, less chance to transmit covid and less chance of dying from it is well worth it for me.
I am careful – I do not want it again.
I do not even want my X to get it!
I am not afraid, I am experienced.
Hang with tourists to be safe.
It’s gene therapy not a vaccine! Only allowed under emergency use! Major side effects and booster jabs needed?? Reports of fully shot up people still dying from virus. Let’s not start spreading fear about the unvaccinated ok. The unvaccinated are the control group in this wild world wide experiment
The non vaxxed are not the control group. They are perpetuating more variants of covid. Research your medical facts.
This is getting worrying. I am worried how the county health authoritarians continue to push their narrative 1. that these are “cases”, when there is no detail of actual symptoms of illness; that these are from the unvaccinated – are the vaccinated even being tested at the same rate? You can create a false narrative by denying testing to the vaccinated under the assumption they shouldn’t be positive; and 3. that they even no the source of illness – these at best a guess and most likely just opinion. They continue to create a story without data.
How come you only report residents? 3-5K tourists a day and no infections….highly doubtful. Suspicious reporting at best
The shopping center is not busy. Meaning running the stores at half empty. Not full staff. All the way to December.
Those who refuse to take the vaccine should not be allowed to travel anywhere off island or to the mainland. The Delta Varian exist and is spreading very rapidly.
One should continue to practice all the Covid-19 Safety Prevention Rules!
Nice. Fascism and bigotry at its best. How virtuous and righteous you are to want to take away equal rights us citizen freedom. I’m sure you regret taking the emergency use authorization mRNA vacc. Now you want everyone else to get it because you realize you bowed to social pressures.
3 (unvaccinated) people in one family on Oahu died recently, when one family member brought home the virus. He went to the hospital, and when he got out, his parents (both under 70, IIRC) were both dead, along with one other family member. All of you who keep saying that these are not “cases,” or the virus is not serious, because not everyone is being hospitalized or dying, are missing the point. The unvaccinated create a breeding ground for the virus to grow, multiply and mutate, creating more deadly variants which could end up killing many more people – including you. You don’t want to be an “experiment”? Well, if you get the virus your body will be one big petri dish for all those viruses to have a field day. That is SO much more appetizing than getting a shot that will stop those buggahs in their tracks, I’m sure… “taking control” of your body by keeping the tested, effective shot out, just means that your body will be OUT of control when the invading viruses come storming the gates.
Everyone who truly understands the science behind the vaccines, and the biochemistry and physiology of this disease (I have degrees in both, BTW), agrees that these vaccinations are fundamentally safe and very effective, and that the potential harm from the disease (and from the possibility of new variants, which can develop and spread in and through unvaccinated populations) is much, much worse.
Those who are believing all the lies, conspiracy theories, and other hype and pseudo-science about the vaccine being some sort of danger, are the true “sheeple” here. Oh well, natural selection will take many more of them than those of us who are smart and get the vaccine.
Did you see the condition of those folks, obesity and age are by far the compounding factors in the seriousness of covid. It’s not fair to leave out the actual facts that would
Have caused them to be so helpless in fighting off covid. Morbid obesity
Exactly right. Sadly my daughter, 2 granddaughters, and grandson are among the un-vaxed. I worry for them.
Having covid is not like having the flu! I have, I know!
Squillo, how can you possibly say that these RNA jabs are safe when the CDC and the WHO admit that they have killed and injured more people in16 months than all of the other vaccines combined for the last 30 years. Why , if these “vaccines” are so safe and effective, hasn’t the FDA given their complete stamp of approval? The truth is, given all the problems that they have presented, they will never meet the criteria for full approval as laid out by the FDA, unless they have been thoroughly corrupted. But then again, they did approve Thalidomide as safe for pregnant women, talc, RoundUp, DDT and a host of other substances that later proved dangerous, so they’re not infallible. Bottom line, these are experimental drugs, the long term use of which has yet to be determined. Take them at your own risk as Big Pharma has no liability if they fail.
Please cite the source(s) for your claims.
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose. CDC definition
(2) Vaccine The term “vaccine” means any substance designed to be administered to a human being for the prevention of 1 or more diseases.
They’ve been working on these cutting edge vaccines for all of time. Specifically, they’ve been working on coronavirus vaccines for nearly 20 years. The information is available check it out!
If you want to kill this virus, don’t allow it to use your body as host. The more bodies it infects, the more it mutates.The more people are infected, the faster this thing spreads. Between spread and mutation, letting this bug live in your body makes the situation worse. Don’t let it in, by any means necessary.
Sorry. That’s not how it works. Haha
For the people out there that are still refusing the vaccine, get off your pride wagons and just get vaccinated. Sure, we don’t know the long term effects, sure I was 100% against the vaccine in the beginning too. BUT think about it, how are you going to even know if there are any long term effects if you are DEAD from COVID?
I got the vaccine a few months ago and “666” hasn’t appeared on my forehead yet. JUST SAYIN.
You do realize that there are a percentage of people whos doctors have Recommended they not get this vaccine due to the proven factual side effects. That can exacerbate pre existing conditions and or make your health worse. Check with your family doctor. Not some cuck in the comments.
We have more data about covid than we do about the vaccines. And we already can see that the vaccines are worse. It’s a simple choice – safer to get covid than the jab.
Are you serious? Vaccines are still yet in experimental stages. COVID-19 since they first detected it about I think 2016, has escalated many times over. Definitely not safe. It was first detected in Wuhan China. But by then, fully blown into something of concern. Death. 2020 March 18. Pandemic began. Locally.
Covid-19… the 19 stands for 2019…
Kali Yuga, maybe you have evidence to back your claim? There are those who say the vax is worse than covid … but the proof? Where is the proof? Please show the proof! If you cannot show proof you are spreading what can easily be called a lie. Just show the numbers and the source. Make your info real.
You need to back up that claim or rescind it.