  As 2021 dawns, the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging strongly as vaccines
finally appear and hopes for a return to normalcy start to materialize. There
is much to be learned from the pandemic's first year data that will likely
remain applicable to future epidemics and possible pandemics. With only minor
variants in virus strain, countries across the globe have suffered roughly the
same pandemic by first glance, yet few locations exhibit the same patterns of
viral spread, growth, and control as the state of Hawai'i. In this paper, we
examine the data and compare the COVID-19 spread statistics between the
counties of Hawai'i as well as examine several locations with similar
properties to Hawai'i.
