Maui death rates have been climbing since the 1990s. It's a multifactorial problem related in large part to demographic shifts - affluent retirees moving in, local kids moving out, mostly to Las Vegas, to find higher paying jobs and affordable housing, neither of which can be found on Maui. The FACT is we only lost 173 people to COVID in total. Had we not vaccinated 87,000 we would have lost a lot more. Unvaccinated people are NINE times more likely to die of COVID than vaccinated people. Nearly all our COVID deaths were among the unvaccinated. I know. I am the Medical Directior of Utilization Management at Maui Memorial Hospital. There was a measurable but temporary drop off in vaccination and a surge in admissions and deaths after one antivaxx fake expert visited Maui and discouraged vaccination. But people here quickly figured out that was stupid and resumed vaccination.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CDC20N2U015009
Maui death rates have been climbing since the 1990s. It's a multifactorial problem related in large part to demographic shifts - affluent retirees moving in, local kids moving out, mostly to Las Vegas, to find higher paying jobs and affordable housing, neither of which can be found on Maui. The FACT is we only lost 173 people to COVID in total. Had we not vaccinated 87,000 we would have lost a lot more. Unvaccinated people are NINE times more likely to die of COVID than vaccinated people. Nearly all our COVID deaths were among the unvaccinated. I know. I am the Medical Directior of Utilization Management at Maui Memorial Hospital. There was a measurable but temporary drop off in vaccination and a surge in admissions and deaths after one antivaxx fake expert visited Maui and discouraged vaccination. But people here quickly figured out that was stupid and resumed vaccination.
If he's such a hero, why did deaths go way up in Hawaii in 2022 and 2021 compared to 2020?