Testing for COVID-19 at the airport; The Long View with Neal Milner: Challenges for airport design post-pandemic; Navy replaces leaky fuel tank in California but not Red Hill; Remembering the Chaulmoogra tree and how it helped those with Hansen's disease
Testing for COVID-19 at the airport
Dr. Jim Ireland is a community physician and the medical director for paramedics and firefighters at the state's airports. He tells us how they discovered a traveler sick with COVID-19 through a Centers for Disease Control program originally used to screen for flights out of Asia and the Pacific but has since been expanded for COVID-19.
The Long View with Neal Milner: Challenges for airport design post-pandemic
How will the coronavirus pandemic affect airport and travel? In the short term, airports will have to allow for physical distancing - a departure from the long lines travelers have been accustomed to after 9/11. In the long term, airports will need to "future proof" so they can remain flexible to a constantly changing world.
Navy replaces leaky fuel tank in California but not Red Hill
In California and Washington, the Navy said its World War II-era fuel tanks should be retired. But in Hawaii, the Navy says its tanks from the same era are working great. Civil Beat Politics & Opinion Editor Chad Blair talks about the double standard. Click here to read Christina Jedra's story at CivilBeat.org.
Remembering the Chaulmoogra tree and how it helped those with Hansen's disease
University Hawaii at Manoa chemist Alice Ball developed a treatment for Hansen's disease patients using the chaulmoogra tree. A tree on campus honors the work, and advocates are caring for the tree and planting seeds from it at Kalaupapa.
