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do you know if we need to pay the $139 COVID test from CVS to meet the requirement…or is the cost-free COVID test from CVS acceptable as well? I’ve been told that they are the same PCR test so I would assume so…but want to be sure that I’m not impacted because I didn’t pay for the test. Thank you!
Hi Mario.
Perhaps someone who has had the free test can comment or you can contact the state’s help desk. We would not like to provide incorrect information.
Aloha.
Hi Mario did you ever find out the answer to this? I’m wondering too and am supposed to leave for Hawaii in 2 days
yes, the free test (as long as it was the PCR) was accepted. Have a great time!
Just two comments re: COVID testing at CVS Minute Clinic Los Angeles (Inglewood location): #1. Signing up for test was easy. Instructions to remain in car with windows up, mask on and NOT to enter the store…need adjustment. After sitting for over an hour in my car as instructed, I decided to go to the Drive-Through Window. Found out that this is what you are supposed to do. So, CVS needs to indicate that if there is a drive-through window, just drive directly to the window at your appointment time. #2. Results were very timely, received in about 36 hours. However, the time stamp shows “ET” and not Pacific time (PST) as appropriate. This would have thrown me outside of the 72 hr window and would have had to quarantine, if anyone at the HNL Airport paid attention. Fortunately I had to change my flight, and I will question CVS about the time zone on their computers for my upcoming test.
hi Jennifer!
Did you pay for the $139 test at CVS or get the no-fee COVID test (where they just bill your insurance)?
Cvs lied. They said we would get results within 2 to 3 days, it’s been 4 days, still no results. We had to fill out forms online and get a code, which wasn’t simple. Took the test on the 13th, traveled to Kauai on the 16th expecting to have our results. We were sent straight to quarantine until we get the results. I took the test within the 72 hours time frame they want. I did everything I was supposed to do and incompetent cvs can’t get it right. I can’t call the cvs clinic, all I get is a recording. This is more than being inconvenient, we can’t leave our room for any reason, not even to get food. We have to depend on a very expensive delivery service. Yesterday we couldn’t get ahold of them in time before closing and we had nothing to eat all day. We are not on vacation, we are here to work and we can’t. Is this all really necessary anyway? A word of advice, get the test done with same day results and don’t go to cvs. Hawaiian Airlines is supposed to have same day testing, but it wasn’t set up in time.