Thank you for posing the obvious question. Everyone needs to think of this. Hawaii's health dept may be screwed up, but I very much doubt that they will change a material fact when lifting information from a certificate to create a certification.
The latter is based on the former.
What does it say on his sister’s COLB?
Honolulu or Jakata?
I’d guess that in such cases the city where the COLB was issued would be the City of record....