Emails show strain on Hawaii administration amid pandemic
HONOLULU (AP) — A review of Hawaii Gov. David Ige’s emails shows the state epidemiologist spent key weeks in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic resisting suggestions and requests from both inside and outside the administration that she boost contact tracing to control the spread of COVID-19.
They also showed Dr. Sarah Park repeatedly telling her superiors that the state’s failure to adequately fund and staff the division she headed was preventing her from quickly expanding their work to respond to the crisis.
