Hawaii Doesn’t Have Enough Quarantine Rooms For COVID Patients … COVID-19 patients need more isolation facilities and state help than ever, but far fewer hotel rooms are available.
The delta variant is driving record-high coronavirus cases on Oahu and Hawaii island, but neither has enough designated rooms to quarantine COVID-19 patients who want to prevent their loved ones from getting sick.
Brooks Baehr, spokesman for the Department of Health, said that the state is working with the counties to secure more hotel rooms for quarantine and isolation. But far fewer rooms are available for coronavirus patients than there were last year, and Baehr said that’s because so many are being rented to tourists.
“Hotels that provided isolation/quarantine rooms last year are now reserving those rooms for visitors,” he said in an email Monday.
