The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard for Tuesday, August 11, at 7:35 a.m.:

Worldwide cases:   20,152,405    Worldwide deaths: 737,986

U.S. cases:  5,113,906     U.S. deaths: 164,101

According to the Dashboard, the reported worldwide cases increased by 215,858 in the last 24 hours.  The worldwide death toll in the past two days increased by 5,519.

According to the Johns Hopkins Dashboard, the United States has added 50,136 cases in the last 24 hours, and reported deaths attributed to COVID-19 have increased by 945.

As of Monday, Hawaii had 3,638 cumulative cases of COVID-19, with 2,038 active cases in the state.  The Monday Department of Health update for Hawaii County indicated 131 cumulative cases with 14 active.  This morning’s Hawaii County Civil Defense update said there are 16 active cases on the island.

Yesterday, three additional deaths due to COVID-19 were reported, an elderly O’ahu woman and two elderly O’ahu men.  This bring’s the state’s death toll from COVID-19 to 34.  Previously, the State Department of Health removed one death from the count, having determined that an older O’ahu woman at the Pearl City Nursing Home died not from COVID-19 –which she had–but from her underlying condition.  State Department of Health said there have been no COVID-19 deaths in Hawaii’s nursing homes.

State DOH is under fire from legislators and Lt. Gov. Dr. Josh Green for what appears to be a lack of transparency in what the DOH is reporting it’s doing in contact tracing.  State Director Bruce Anderson and State Epidemiologist Sarah Park have repeatedly said, and the State Health web site shows, that they have 105 contact tracers actively on the job.  But last Friday afternoon, State Senator Donovan delaCruz and members of his State Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 paid a surprise visit to the State Health Department.  What they found were few contact tracers, and those there reported they had sometimes as many as 100 to 192 people with COVID-19 to trace.  Although KITV reported on Saturday morning that Dr. Bruce Anderson said the unannounced visit was “reprehensible,” neither Gov. David Ige nor Dr. Anderson have commented on the contact tracing situation since Friday.