Hawaii Safe Travel Covid rule changes. Official source reveals target date as Oahu, Maui, Big Island align.
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If as an unvaccinated resident of Hawaii, returning to the Big island can I avoid testing and self quarantine for 5 or 10 days before resuming normal activities?
Yes you can I’ve done it a number of time. You to find a trusted testing partner near where you are staying and get tested within I think it’s still 72 hours … but l could wrong about that.
Hi! Our son is traveling via United to Oahu next week. He has completed the Safe Travels and has his QR code. When we went to Kauai in Oct, we received our pre-clearance wristband at the gate prior to boarding. Are they still doing pre-clearance at the airports? (SFO) or upon arrival in Hawaii? Thank you!
Hi Lara.
As we understand it, Pre-Clear is hit or miss largely due to staffing issues at the airlines.
Aloha.
Can someone please give me a straight answer to this question: if we are vaccinated and have had a booster shot, do we still need to do that test before flying to Hawai’i from the mainland? We are trying to figure this out, especially because, if we need a specific test, we need to find a place that gives it, that Hawai’i will accept as a provider. Mahalo.
Hi Teri.
It is testing or vaccination at this point, not both.
Aloha.
wait, so they are going to eliminate testing for entry?
this is insane.if theres one thing omicron has demonstrated, vaxxes and boosters do little to curb infection and protect hawaiians from infection and spread
they are going the wrong way, they need to be mandating tests for everyone, regardless of vax status not the other way around
“wait, so they are going to eliminate testing for entry?”
No “testing requirement” is being eliminated. There is no “testing for entry” required for Hawaii if you are traveling from within the US. There is a quarantine requirement. You can get an exemption from quarantine based on testing, proof of being vaccinated, or if you recently recovered from covid and have the required documentation.
Any new booster/vaccine mandate makes me wonder big time how International travelers-Canadians will navigate the system. Sure, we’ve had the 2 jabs, +booster, but our vax card status is not getting updates, so how will non-Americans get to prove their vax status…CRAZINESS. The whole thing is ridiculous as even Israeli is proving out by their scientists that vaccines after 4th jabs, or “multiples” of them, are not very effective and may be doing more harm than good. Look at Israeli’s cases #s.
I live in Canada and have had 4 vaccinations and they all show up on my QR code so not sure what problem you are having. Not really our place to question their policies either just follow them if we want to go there.
HI BOH guys,
I was hoping you could do an article on dog quarantines when they come to Hawaii and compare it to current rules re covid to get into Hawaii.
Hi Paul.
We think you are joking. Thanks for your 700 comments to date!
Aloha.
Hello PAULC
I shipped my military daughter’s two dogs twice to Hawaii. I could have gotten them into North Korea easier. The Veterinarians who did all the required medical prep and paperwork just shook their heads at how outdated and unnecessary some of it is.
But you have me thinking. Perhaps the Hawaiian Covid and Rabies Control Offices share the watercooler.
Lol Paul…from someone who also had to jump through those hoops to bring my cat
In the 80’s we brought a family pet to live with us permanently on Oahu. At that time quarantine was 120 days and was brutal on the poor dog and us. Now it’s 30 days even though many vets say if the pet has a rabies shot and tested sequentially for 2 weeks it should not need quarantine at all! But alas, welcome to Hawaii!
Any news on updated rules from the state with regards to boosters? I see the European Union, WHO and the UK all came out and said the boosters do not work, and that they should be treated like flu vaccines and made available around the same time as flu shots.
Thanks for any news – we want to avoid the booster if we do not need it.
Hi Cynthia.
Nothing has changed since we wrote about this last week.
Aloha.
Cynthia,
Exactly! It’s been reported that one of the reasons for the recent huge surge in low level cases is because the booster does little to nothing.
But, politicians always want to be seen doing something even if it doesn’t work. Buys them time.
Please, please please Rod W. Read the actual stories coming out of the UK. The substance of the research is that getting “repeated” boosters could work against the immune system. In the same set of reporting, they recommend annual Covid vaccinations along with flu shots.
This is a novel coronavirus. You nor I have any standing to make a claim that is not supported by research. You just did.
The UK is ending COVID passes, masks and work from home effective 1/26/22. Self isolation rules will be removed end of March. The UK is opening! We can only hope we follow.
Rod perhaps the reason so many of the cases coming out are, as you say, low level is because the vaccines and the boosters are working.
Whatever anyone wants to believe, and there is plenty of misinformation out there, the fact remains it’s the unvaccinated that are the majority of the deaths and the minority of the population. If everyone was vaxxed and boosted there would be even fewer hospitalization’s.
John W that’s because the majority of the cases now are the Omicron varient of which there is a 74% decrease icu admission and 90% hospitalized cases are discharged in less than 3 days. This variant is a virologist’s dream…high infection rate almost zero death rate speeds up Natural herd immunity which is much more effective than one induced via vaccines even against delta.
John, as one who is vaxed and boosted, I’m first in line for shots.
However, with the govt, State & Feds, changing their minds on a regular basis one can be forgiven for not believing them.
And, boosters only apply to the fully vaxed. So, if one is vaxed why would s/he get boosted if the stats for the boosters are not convincing. Remember, already vaxed.
That is not a fact. A huge study just completed in the UK shows that vaxxed people are twice as likely to get covid as those that are non-vaxxed. People don’t want to face the fact that our government has been lying to us for 2 years.
That’s not true Ron…total misinformation, sorry.
Here’ the Reuters fact check on that being spread….
VERDICT
Missing context. Suggestions that higher numbers vaccinated individuals are dying in England than unvaccinated omits context that most of the population has been vaccinated.
So if the vaccine works, why isn’t it working? Hmmm?
Simple math. 8 times as many people vaxxed than non vaxxed so only twice as many contracting the virus means it is working.
Also the US COVID cases are falling, it seems OMICRON has peaked. This is great news for everyone!
As always, read beyond the headlines before you post CV-19 info. The recommendation was to avoid “repeated” boosters due to a potential weakening over time of one’s immune system. Further it recommended annual jabs, same as the flu vaccine.
Jamee B. I want to reply to you directly, but there was not Reply button – just a Newer and Older.
Here’s an excerpt from CNN June 23, 2020
(CNN)It’s an unprecedented effort: the US government is investing more than $3 billion to come up with a vaccine against the coronavirus.
cnn.com/2020/06/22/health/us-coronavirus-vaccine-funding/index.html
Do I need a pcr test if I am fully vaccinated that is boosted? Thanks Jim S
Hi Jim.
No, it is either testing, vaccination or recent recovery. Any of those work.
Aloha.
Unless you are arriving from outside the U.S and then it is testing AND vaccination.
But uploading your Vax card is critical to your flight success.
Living on Oahu and having made numerous trips to the PNW and don’t see what the problem is with safe travels. Leaving nothing to do, returning you just upload your vax card or test results to safe travels, follow instructions and then get a wristband at the gate and walk of the airplane. EZ
Life is pretty normal here right now. Restaurants seat you inside if your vaxxed, if not you can get takeaway. Everything else is pretty normal, malls, beaches etc. right now it is less crowded is all.