Nearly 10% of Big Islanders fully vaccinated for virus

Brycelyn Binney-Hams registers an individual at a February vaccine clinic at Kekuaokalani Gym. (Laura Ruminski/West Hawaii Today)
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Nearly 15% of the Big Island’s population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and almost 10% is fully vaccinated, the latest data released by the state Department of Health shows.

To date, Hawaii has been awarded 507,730 COVID-19 vaccine doses, of which 470,150 had been received as of Thursday afternoon, according to the state.

Of the doses of Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson received, 380,310 doses have been administered statewide, including more than 43,500 on the Big Island.

An estimated 15.7% of the state’s population has received at least one dose and 9.6% have received two doses. Sixty-three percent of kupuna 75 and older have received at least one dose.

On the Big Island, 14.7% of the population has received at least one dose and 6.9% two doses, according to the Department of Health.