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October 26, 2021 @ 5:20 am Blogs, Covid-19
(AP) — More than half of Honolulu first responders who applied for exemptions from the city’s vaccine mandate cited religion as their reason for not getting inoculated. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports 57% of all exemption requests among
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October 22, 2021 @ 5:48 am Blogs, Covid-19
The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) is planning for the likely administration of COVID-19 vaccinations to children 5-11. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must authorize use of the vaccine and the U.S. Centers for Disease
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October 15, 2021 @ 12:00 am News Daypop
An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Thursday to approve the Moderna COVID-19 booster shot for recipients over 18. In the first day of a two-day meeting to evaluate requests from both
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October 13, 2021 @ 12:05 am News Daypop
On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that New York state cannot impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on healthcare workers without allowing their employers to consider religious exemption requests. U.S. District Judge David Hurd in Albany, New York,
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October 7, 2021 @ 12:05 am News Daypop
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Wednesday to require people to show proof they’re fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter certain indoor establishments. The council voted 11-2 in favor of the mandate, which will require people
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September 23, 2021 @ 5:40 am Blogs, Covid-19
(AP) — A Honolulu police officer says he decided to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to save his job. Cpl. Mark Kutsy tells the Honolulu Star-Advertiser he got the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine last week and returned
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September 23, 2021 @ 5:15 am Blogs, Covid-19
(AP) — An Illinois woman is wanted in Hawaiʻi after she didn’t show up for a virtual court hearing on her arrest for an alleged fake COVID-19 vaccination card that misspelled Moderna as “Maderna.” At a hearing
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September 23, 2021 @ 12:00 am News Daypop
The White House said that the Biden administration will purchase 500 million more doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to donate to low- and middle-income countries, bringing the total number of shots committed by the U.S. for the
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September 22, 2021 @ 5:00 am Blogs, Covid-19
(AP) — A man who helped organize a Hawaiʻi group that opposes COVID-19 vaccines and mandates says he now has regrets after contracting the disease. Chris Wikoff told Hawaiʻi News Now this week that he helped start
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September 21, 2021 @ 5:40 am Blogs
(AP) — Airline workers and Transportation Security Administration staff have been granted a grace period to comply with a Hawaiʻi order that requires people going to state facilities to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19