Green: Herd immunity for state possible in 8 weeks

“So we’re almost at 1.2 million shots, and when we get to 2 million shots, we will essentially have taken care of 1 million people, and that should be herd immunity,” Green said.

“In Maui, we had a couple young people in the intensive care unit, one really at death’s door,” Green said.

“We really need an urgency here because the sooner we knock down the total number of cases, there will be less virus out there to spread.

“As more contagious variants spread, we likely need more people vaccinated than first anticipated,” a DOH spokesman told the Tribune-Herald at that time.

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