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Podcast: Spotlight Hawaii
Episode: Gov. David Ige says Hawaii could double vaccination rate if doses were available
Description: Governor David Ige said the state has done a great job of setting up a broad network of locations to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, but that Hawaii’s rate of vaccinations is being hampered by a bottleneck at the federal level.
“We could easily provide inoculations to twice the number of people that we are currently doing each week,” the Governor said this morning on Spotlight Hawaii.
Ige said the state is receiving up to 40,000 doses each week, and distributing them as quickly as possible.
“We’re not sitting on it. It’s a pretty eff...