Hawaii Contact Tracers Work Overtime As COVID Cases Surge … Record daily case counts in Hawaii are forcing state workers to prioritize whom to call to alert them of possible exposure to the virus.
Amid surging COVID-19 cases in Hawaii, state health officials are struggling to reach people who have been in close contact with positive coronavirus cases and are urging the community to help curb the rapidly spreading virus by getting vaccinated.
For the past six months, Hawaii health officials have consistently contacted more than 80% of close contacts of known COVID-19 cases, reaching more than 90% in some weeks. But in the last week of July, that figure dropped to two-thirds.
Data from the first week of August is not yet published, but this week the state reported record high coronavirus cases driven largely by the highly contagious delta variant.
