Past COVID-19 Community Bulletins

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Issue #123 – Safe Summer Travel Tips ✈️

Issue #122 – Extended COVID-19 Test Kit Expiration Dates➕

Issue #121 – Updated Vaccines and How To Find Them 🔍

Issue #120 – Federal PHE Ends – Let’s Continue To Be COVID Akamai🧠

Issue #119 – ➕Additional Bivalent Booster Authorized for Kūpuna – Stay Up-to-date

Issue #118 – ↗Increased COVID-19 Hospitalizations in April – Stay Up-To-Date With Vaccines

Issue #117 – COVID Numbers Up 🔺Practice Everyday Prevention

Issue #116 – ✈Testing Requirement Removed + Medical Tourism Guidance

Issue #115 – Study: ✈Negative COVID-19 Test Before Travel Reduced Spread

Issue #114 – New 🆕 Data: Bivalent Boosters Offer Protection Against New Variants

Issue #113- Transmissible COVID Variant Spreads in Hawai‘i

Issue #112- COVID-19 Wastewater Concentrations Inch Higher 📈

Issue #111 – Young Keiki 👶 Now Eligible for COVID-19 Bivalent Booster

Issue #110 – New 🆕 data: bivalent boosters provide significant additional protection

Issue #109 – Bivalent Booster is One of Black Friday’s Best Deals

Issue #108 – Protect Your ‘Ohana – Get Boosted Before the Holidays

Issue #107 – Get Protection From Flu and COVID Before They Peak

Issue #106 – COVID-19 Wastewater Monitoring

Issue #105 – COVID update, reinfection rate rising📈

Issue #104 – What You Need to Know 💡 About Monkeypox

Issue #103 – New Bivalent Boosters Arriving: ➡ Soon

Issue #102 – The laundry list  of long COVID symptoms

Issue #101 – Why watch Omicron BA.5 🔬 more closely?

Issue #100 – Back to 🏫 School Safely

Issue #99 – Do Your Part to Protect Our Kupuna

Issue #98 – Where to get COVID-19 vaccinations for young children

Issue #97 – Therapeutics for the Outpatient Treatment of COVID-19

Issue #96 – Local Vlogger Details His Family’s Experience With COVID-19

Issue #95 – Pandemic Creates Urgent Need to Address Youth Mental Health Crisis

Issue #94 – Booster Doses Enhance Your COVID-19 Protection

Issue #93 – Translations Provide Critical COVID-19 Information for Non-English Speakers

Issue #92  – Where to Get Your COVID-19 Vaccination Now

Issue #91  – Watch the Hawai‘i State Department of Health’s COVID Update Video!

Issue #90  – State Veterinarian says pets can get COVID-19, but it’s not common

Issue #89  – Pediatrician Answers Questions about Resuming Regular Keiki Checkups

Issue #88  – State Laboratories Division Conducts Testing to Keep Hawaii Safe

Issue #87  – The Hawai’i COVID Collaborative: Winning Hearts, Saving Lives

Issue #86  – Our Hope for the New Year

Issue #85 – 6 Ways to Protect Your Ohana

Issue #84 – Filipino Community Demonstrates There is Power in Unity

Issue #83 – 5 Tips to Safely Celebrate Thanksgiving

Issue #82 – Why should I vaccinate my child?

Issue #81 – 🎃 Tips for Celebrating Halloween Safely

Issue #80 – To Boost or Not to Boost

Issue #79 – 5 #BeThe1To Action Steps

Issue #78 – Hawaii’s COVID survivors return to share their stories

Issue #77 – 📊 Improving public health data in Hawai‘i

Issue # 76 – 5 “Take Suicide Seriously” Tips 

Issue #75 – Full Plates Don’t Stop Them from Giving

Issue #74 Rebounding with Aloha

Issue #73 – Free Testing Expands to the Neighbor Islands

Issue #72 🖍️ Free Keiki Heroes activity book and info sheets

Issue #71 🦠 Where Can I Get a Free COVID Test?

Issue #70  🚌 Back-to-School Guidance Q&A with Karin Ng

Issue #69 – 🪄 5 Tips for Preparing Your Keiki for a COVID Test

Issue #68 – ✈️ 5 Tips for Safe Summer Travel

Issue #67 – How to make healthy choices the easiest choice. 😃

Issue #66 – US vaccinated travelers added to Safe Travels & #HIGotVaccinated Winners

Issue #65 – Last 5 Days! Enter for Your Chance to Win

Issue #64 – 🏆 Get vaccinated and enter by MIDNIGHT tonight for a chance to win

Issue #63 – 🤔 How do I know if the vaccine is right for me?

Issue #62 – It’s #HIGotVaccinated Month, mahalo for being vaccinated 🙏!

Issue #61 – Prepare your ‘ohana for a safer summer this Memorial Day weekend

Issue #60 – 5 Vaccine FAQs for Hawai‘i Parents

Issue #59 – Watch Hawaii’s students share why they’re getting the vaccine

Issue #58 – I got vaccinated. Can I get together with Mom?

Issue #57 – Aloha prevails through team work

Issue #56 – Watch new “Live With No Regrets” stories

Issue #55 – From zero to a million in four months

Issue #54 – Where can I make an appointment?

Issue #53 – Sharing a message of hope

Issue #52 – Vaccinations open to 60+ on Monday

Issue #51 – Who is eligible now and who is next in line?

Issue #50 – FREE crisis counseling available through Ku Makani

Issue #49 – Introducing The Weekly Dose with Brooks Baehr

Issue #48 – No one is left behind in Hawaii’s vaccination plan

Issue #47 – Mom tested positive for COVID-19? Now what?

Issue #46 – Your COVID-safe Valentine’s Day dining-out guide

Issue #45 – 5 things I need to know about COVID-19 variants?

Issue #44 – What do I need to know about Hawaii’s vaccination plan?

Issue #43 – What to expect at your COVID-19 vaccination appointment

Issue #42 – How do I sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine?

Issue #41 – Watch “Let’s Get Back to Real Life” videos

Issue #40 – 7 questions to ask before accepting an event invitation

Issue #39 – Vaccine distribution to frontline workers Q&A with Dr. Tarquin Collis

Issue #38 – COVID-19 vaccine: The science and the heart

Issue #37 – COVID-19 Vaccine Q&A with Ronald Balajadia

Issue #36 – Today, new quarantine guidance does not modify any travel quarantine

Issue #35 – Gratitude in the midst of a pandemic?

Issue #34 – Department of Health Steps Up Outreach to Pacific Islanders

Issue #33 – Read five tips for celebrating safely

Issue #32 – How to Gather For Real

Issue #31 – Is wearing a mask mandatory in Hawai‘i? 🗺️

Issue #30 – To book or not to book holiday travel? 🗺️

Issue #29 – ✈️ Traveling or returning to Hawai‘i

Issue #28 – 🎃 Planning for a happy, healthy and safe Halloween

Issue #27 – Should I get a pulse oximeter for early COVID-19 detection?

Issue #26 – DOH Uses $14 million of CARES Act Funding to Help Staff Hospitals

Issue #25 – Answering the tough questions with Dr. Tarquin Collis

Issue #24 – A behind-the-scenes look at the new mask-wearing behavior metric

Issue #23 – Watch “live with No Regrets” survivor stories

Issue #22 – What do you do while waiting for your COVID-19 test result?

Issue #21 – 😷 View “Not Taking Chances” campaign videos

Issue #20 – 🍱 7 tips for safer socializing with friends

Issue #19 – 🎒 Return to learn resources for families

Issue #18 – Behind-the-scenes heroes of the pandemic

Issue #17 – Acknowledging our contact tracers

Issue #16 – Social Bubble FAQs

Issue #15 – Celebrate Independence Day Safely

Issue #14 – Hawai’i’s Bike Boom keeps people moving

Issue #13 – Catching up with Dr. Run Heidelberg

Issue #12 – Parenting Perspective: Stephanie Lum, Hawaii News Now Anchor

Issue #11 – The Scoop on Sentinel Surveillance Testing

Issue #10 – Stepping Up for Youth Mental Health

Issue #9 – Signers of the Times

Issue #8 – Mahalo to the DOH’s Unsung Heroes: Our Bilingual Health Aides

Issue #7 – Using Technology to Facilitate Contact Tracing and Contact Monitoring

Issue #6 – Think globally. Act locally. And never forget your Hawaii roots.

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COVID-19 Community Bulletin Issue #2

COVID-19 Community Bulletin Issue #1