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August 14, 2020
In The News
Dr. Jennifer Smith says there's no army of contact tracers -- only a group of demoralized workers buried under mounting positive cases and forgotten by their leadership.
A whistleblower from the Department of Health sounded the alarm on what she describes as dire conditions that make it impossible to do effective contact tracing.
August 13, 2020
Press Release
Washington, DC—Tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. HST, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) will be hosting a Facebook Live virtual town hall event to update Hawai‘i residents about the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. She will also discuss her press conference, to be held tomorrow morning, on the failure of Governor Ige and the Hawaiʻi Department of Health to deploy an effective contact tracing strategy.
August 13, 2020
In The News
Hawaii's top health officials have turned their much maligned "contact tracing " program over to a new hire, following record numbers of COVID-19 cases and a call for the removal of the state's health director and epidemiologist.
August 11, 2020
In The News
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard also looking into what kind of federal oversight and accountability can be created to manage use of federal CARES Act money.
HONOLULU - A Congressional member is calling for heads to roll at the state health department. The flap is over the lack of contact tracers. U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI 2nd District) wants Governor David Ige to remove Department of Health (DOH) director Dr. Bruce Anderson and chief epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park from their posts.
Honolulu Star Advertiser | U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says state health department leaders ‘need to go’
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard today posted a second twitter message calling for a change in leadership at the Hawaii state Department of Health, which has recently come under fire for its contact tracing capacity.
Gabbard’s tweet to Gov. David Ige said DOH director Bruce Anderson and State Epidemiologist Sarah Park “need to go.”
