Hawaii needs to add more hospital and health care capacity before it gets overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases.

The pandemic made certain things in our community clear, but we will forget what we learned anyway.

Health officials reported 845 new coronavirus cases and four more deaths on Friday.

More and more agencies and business are announcing vaccine mandates for employees if they want to keep their jobs.

The state DOE reported 383 new Covid-19 cases among students and staff last week but cited no evidence of school-based transmission.

Settlement talks are underway including the creation of a panel to oversee reforms needed to cope with the pandemic in Hawaii’s prisons and jails.

Nearly all of Hawaii’s recent Covid cases are the delta variant, and health officials say community spread is behind the surge.

Big events are still happening in Hawaii even as hospital ICUs fill up.

As the Covid-19 delta variant drives new cases, business groups are discussing whether to support policies requiring customers to be vaccinated.

A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said that the arrests were the third and fourth made by the office for faking vaccination documentation.