With more visitors arriving following Omicron, last week the state updated its exemption for Hawaii travel after Covid recovery.
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With more visitors arriving following Omicron, last week the state updated its exemption for Hawaii travel after Covid recovery.
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What if you received monoclonal antibody treatment…..can these be used instead of lab test for proof of covid recovery?
According to the blog post on which you are commenting, there is NO test required for proof of COVID recovery. You need a positive test as “proof” you had it, and a letter from MD as “proof” you no longer had it. The letter has to be dated at least ten days after the test, and 14 days before you arrive. The original positive test has to be within 90 days of your arrival. This is a very narrow exemption.
it says you can go 11 days after recovery, but a doctors note needs to be signed 14 days before?
This only applies if you haven’t been vaccinated. If you’re vaccinated, that’s all the “proof” you need.
As long as they don’t add booster to the requirement. You may have the original shot(s) and no booster and now be positive. As usual it is dependent on what the state decides to do and when.
The way I understand it is:
Positive test no older than 90 days or less than 11 days from departure.
The medical provider letter must be at least 10 days after your test collection date, but cannot be older than 14 days from departure. The logic is if you have an older test, they want a doctor to clear you closer to your trip to be sure you are OK.
Its a real brain teaser. Try working with the calendar based on your test date and departure date to map out the dates. It make make it clearer.
Do i need to download adobe app to upload required documents?
LEIMOMI… Safe Travels is not an app therefore cannot be “downloaded”. You have to log into the website even if you do it from your phone.
Hawaii changed their procedures yet again… shocker
In 2 yrs they’ve hardly been able to go 2 weeks without fumbling something up.
Good Day STEVE
I believe you correct, sir.
It has been my observation, gleaned from my many days of government employment, that within most governments change very often masquerades as progress.
yeah and its my observation that many want to take our country way backwards.
Steve,
With all due respect you do realize that Hawaii unlike ANY other US state is a spec in the middle of the ocean? With very little access to outside hospitals should those hospitals become over run? Dont like it dont go.
Let us know when those darn hospitals get overrun. And not because of a nurse shortage.
I’m confused. For several weeks you’ve been saying that there is no requirement for travelers to fill out the Safe Travels form, and yet it says that above. Please clarify. I’ve already received our QR codes for our trip to Kauai next week.
Hi Randy.
We have never said you don’t need to comply with Safe Travels. There is no longer a health questionnaire which may be what you are referring to. Since you already have your QR code, then it appears to us that you are good to go.
Aloha.
Hello,
I was exposed to covid on 01/8/2022 but I did not get tested for covid-19 until 01/13/2022. I’m supposed to fly out on 01/24/2022 do I have a chance of having the exception approved for recovering from covid-19 or should I reschedule my flight?
Thank you for your time,
R.M
Hi Rosio.
It doesn’t appear that the exemption will apply to you. Thus changing your flight might be the safest route.
You can try, but it clearly states “The medical provider letter must be dated at least 10 days after the collection date of your positive result and no earlier than 14 days before your departure date for Hawaii.”
Aloha.
This is so confusing! It makes it sound like anyone going to Hawaii has to fill out the exemption form. When filling it out it asks why you want an exemption, where you’re quarantining and the address and if you traveled 14 days before your arrival? How would you fill the form out ahead of time if they want to know if you traveled 14 days before your arrival? If you have been vaccinated twice and also have received the booster do you still need to fill out this exemption form?
MELANIE… You’re filling out the wrong form! You need to fill out the Vaccination Exemption Form which basically just asks where/when you got each shot and then asks you to upload your vaccination card. The information above is just for those who haven’t been vaccinated but have had Covid and assume to have antibody protection.
Thank you!!! After I filled out the info on the Safe Travels site I uploaded my info.
Just anyone know if Kaiser Southern California is CLIF certified? My test is not note any certification from the lab that they use. Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give me.
If it’s regarding a positive covid test…those don’t need to be from a Hawaii trusted safe travels partner.
True, but it still needs to be a molecular test to use this exemption (quoting from the blog post): “A molecular test (NAAT, PCR, or RNA). Antigen and antibody type tests are NOT acceptable for this exemption.”
Bottom line is that, without a positive molecular test, you never had it, and therefore never recovered from it, thus no quarantine exemption for you. Science!
NANCY… YOu only need to do this is you have NOT been vaccinated but have had Covid and are assumed to have post-illness antibodies.
I am triple vaccinated and it will be more than 90 days since I tested positive. What I don’t know is whether they are using the first positive test you received or in my case I took more than one, the last positive test you took. Does anyone know the answer to this question.
If you are “vaccinated”, then apply for the vax exemption. Period. It does not matter when you had covid. All this is about is avoiding quarantine when arriving on Hawaii.
I filled out the vaccination exemption form and uploaded a pic of my vaccination card, but yet have not received the exemption. I am travelling this coming Sat and I am worried if I do not get the exemption. do you know of anybody who got the exemption declined when they inspected his vax card at the airport?
Please check but I don’t believe Safe Travels is required any longer so that may be why you aren’t getting communication back from that site.
You filled this out on Safe Travels, correct? When you set up your Safe Travels account you enter your Trip and get an email with a QR Code, then you apply for exemption from quarantine / vaccine exemption. Provided you did both of these steps, you can log in again and click on Generate New QR Code Email.
Also, when I log in I click on the down arrow in Trips and see my QR Code.
Hope this helps.
Hi if I am an Australian citizen (double vaxxed) travelling throughout the U.S can i enter Oahu or do i need a Pcr test? Thankyou
Hi Lisa.
If you are arriving from within the US you need to comply with Hawaii Safe Travels rules to obtain the vaccination exemption. If directly from Australia, then you need to follow CDC rules found here instead: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/international-travel/index.html.
Aloha.
Totally confused! Keeps referring to having proof of positive Covid but no reference to having subsequent negative testing. Assume that Vaccine Exemption still applies – that this applies only to those who do not get vaccinated but are claiming exemption based on the antibodies they now have after have had The Rona?!?!?!
Hi Barbara.
That’s correct. This has nothing to do with the vaccine exemption.
Aloha.
So what is the requirement if you have not had COVID?
KATHY S… Answer to the Vaccine Exemption Questionnaire on Safe Travels (where/when did you get vaccinated, what type and upload your card) OR negative PCR test prior to flight (72 hours the last I looked).