“We are in the process of reviewing those changes in the guidelines and will be announcing appropriate adjustments as we move forward,” Ige said, in a news conference on Thursday afternoon. “The state mask mandate continues to be in force. ... We will continue to enforce the mask mandate.” The governor also acknowledged that while it “may be OK and safe” for vaccinated individuals to forgo a mask in public, keeping the mandate in place benefits the broader community. At one point, he indicated he would support requiring masks until up to 70% to 80% of Hawaii is vaccinated, but later walked that back saying the state doesn’t have a “hard and fast cutoff.”