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The state Health Department has ordered Embry Health to stop conducting COVID testing in Hawaii ― including at Kahala Mall and several parks ― because it does not have the proper authorizations or approvals to do so.

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Hawaii’s tourism industry is gearing up for a busy winter season.

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Hawaii's hospitals are busy treating non-COVID patients, and experts say the influx is likely due to people delaying care because of the pandemic. 

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Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday.

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HNN News Brief for Nov. 4, 2021:

Hawaii is reporting 13 additional COVID deaths today and 112 new cases.

Just weeks after a blaze destroyed a surfboard rack in Waikiki, firefighters are investigating a fire at a separate rack.

And Hawaii has started to vaccinate younger kids, a key expansion of the state's vaccination effort. 

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Hundreds of traveling nurses who have spent the past three months caring for Hawaii’s COVID patients will return to the mainland next week. That means many local hospitals will again be left short-staffed.

It’s a problem that’s plagued Hawaii long before the pandemic. And in search of a solution, some facilities have managed to get those nurses to give up life on the road.

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