Originally Posted by
WrightHI
What I don’t understand is why the state hasn’t spent some of the federal COVID money on buying out a bunch of hotel rooms to isolate people who get sick or have had high-risk exposures. Cases don’t have to turn into clusters, but we have a lot of people with no good options for isolating themselves.
The state has acquired hotel rooms on Oahu, Hawaii, and Maui to accomdate healthy people that need to live away from crowded positive households. DOH says the program exists, but won't say which hotels or which people due to privacy. They did say its funded through CARES funds.