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  2. EdH

    I hope it will change we have reservations for august but will have both vaccination by next week. Guess we may have to get vaccinated again. So be it assuming it is even allowed.

  3. Holly

    Mahalo for your excellent coverage of this debacle. Today’s update regarding the proposed vaccination passport isn’t clear on one aspect – would vaccination within the specified time period be the ONLY way to travel or just an alternative to the current testing requirements? (I realize it may not be clear because the announcement may not have been clear or was silent on that point, but maybe you have special insight!) In other words, for those of us who have no plans to vaccinate, can we still just get a negative test or would that option be eliminated?

    1. Beat of Hawaii

      Hi Holly.

      Thanks for asking. The lieutenant governor has said that it will always be just an alternative and that vaccination will never be a requirement.

      Aloha.

  4. Heather

    1) If not vaccinated, as long as someone tests negative, they can still go to Hawaii, correct?

    2) Didn’t the CDC come out saying the PCR test is no guarantee of a negative result? Or rather, it was running false-positives when it was actually negative?

    3) Doesn’t the digital upload of someone’s medical information (test results or vaccine records) violate HIPAA privacy policy?

    4) Since vaccination doesn’t mean someone won’t get Covid, or spread it, how can this be beneficial towards locals since its an unknown factor? No one has ever mandated/”suggested” the flu vaccine in order to travel during horrible flu pandemics, why now?

    Thanks!

    1. Beat of Hawaii

      Hi Heather.

      Vaccination will just be an alternative to testing or quarantine. Not a requirement.

      Aloha.

  6. Will E

    I had both Covid 19 vaccination shots in January. Does this new information mean that since I am travelling to Maui in May that I’ll need to get another shot?

  7. Ed K

    Mahalo for the information.

    Could you please let me know what happens to those who had vaccines over 3 months ago. My wife and I were part of the Pfizer study, but our last shots were in September. We are still testing positive for antibodies nearly 6 months out. Will we be allowed to travel in late April when we have reservations? Can we still test negative 72 hours prior to travel and be exempt from quarantine? Any advice or insight you have would be appreciated. We had hoped by scheduling so far out, things would be clearer by then.

    Mahalo-

    Ed K

    1. Beat of Hawaii

      Hi Ed.

      We don’t know yet what the state will decide about the duration of vaccination for avoidance of other travel rules.

      Aloha.

  8. Kathi

    So, if we have reservations to Kauai for April 6th, and have both been fully vaccinated more than two weeks ahead, we will still have to spend three days on another island or quarantine on Kauai? And have negative tests before coming?

  9. Tonya D

    ARGH…still so frustrating to plan a vacation. We’ll be getting vaccines at the end of May and, even with two weeks after the second vaccine, that’ll mean that we’re longer than three months out from the vaccine for our October visit so it’s back to COVID testing.

    For those of us who don’t live closer than three hours to an airport, all of the airport testing (with flight confirmations) don’t do a thing to help. We still have to do the 72 hours ahead thing (and in rural areas, that’s a hard thing to find without going through Vault, and crossing our fingers) *and* since our trip involves one island for four days, another for two and back to the first for 10 days–that’s three COVID tests each, two of them smack dab in the middle of the time we’re supposedly “vacationing” on a remote area of the Big Island that doesn’t even have electricity or potable water.

    I’m gonna cross my fingers that the “science” tells Gov. Ige that vaccines are good for longer than three months….

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