The Monday morning, May 4, 6:32 a.m. Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard:
Worldwide cases: 3,544,281 Worldwide deaths: 248,169
U.S. cases: 1,161,805 U.S. deaths: 67,798
Hawaii cases: 620 (544 released from isolation) Hawaii deaths: 17
Hawaii Island cases: 74 (63 released from isolation) Hawaii Island deaths: 0
Countries around the world are beginning to reopen. In Italy, one of the hardest hit countries in Europe with 211,938 cases and 29,079 in a country with a population of 60 million, more than 4 million workers are scheduled to return to work today.
In the United States, New York continues to be the hardest hit state, with the New York Department of Public Health reporting 318,953 cases and 19,415 deaths. Doctors at New York hospitals are reporting a wide variety of symptoms, as are doctors elsewhere–not just lung infection and respiratory distress but blood clots, kidney disease, and more.
In Hawaii, although more cases are confirmed in those 20 to 59, people 60 and older have the highest rate of hospitalizations, at almost 28%. Most of the cases on Hawaii Island are in the Kailua-Kona area, with at least 36 people being reported by State Department of Health as part of the McDonald’s Kona cluster, which includes 19 employees and 17 family contacts.
In an interview with New West Broadcasting’s Sherry Bracken, Lt. Governor Josh Green, M.D., said most of the 17 deaths in the state were in people over 60 with underlying symptoms–COPD or other lung impairments, obesity, and diabetes. He also said with this disease being only being prevalent for around 4 months, there is very little known. Echoing doctors around the world, he said new things are being learned every day. He also reported there are an adequate number of PCR tests available in the state, to tell if people have active cases, and that antibody tests are being rolled out now by Clinical Laboratories, and available through doctors and clinics. The antibody test will tell if somebody had COVID-19 but cannot predict how much immunity a person has.
