The Garden Island: "Community members try to make sense of DOE COVID report"

Thanks to The Garden Island for highlighting my project tracking COVID-19 cases in Hawaiʻi schools.

Community members try to make sense of DOE COVID report | The Garden Island
LIHU‘E — On Thursday, the state Department of Education reported 383 COVID-19 cases between Aug.14 and Thursday, Aug.19, and seven of those cases were reported on Kaua‘i.

As the DOE website doesn’t aggregate by school, and past reports are hidden. My site works to rectify those shortcomings:

“Ryan Catalani, director of advancement at Hawai’i Children’s Action Network, does not have kids, but looked up the data to get a better idea about what is happening in his community.

“Catalani was alarmed that the data from week to week is not available.

‘I think it is important that people are able to look back and see the entire scope,’ he said.

“Making that data available aligned with his interests and passions, so Catalani took it on as a personal project to make an interactive map of the islands with the ability to click on an area and see all of the COVID cases at each school.”

Ryan Catalani

Ryan Catalani