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Hawaii Travel Now Ready For October Reopening

Hawaii’s Lieutenant Governor and emergency room physician Josh Green said on a Facebook live stream yesterday, “I don’t see any reason not to begin travel (and) getting some hotels open, some restaurant activity going again.” He is unaware of anything preventing travel resuming starting as planned, starting October 1. “There’s no reason we can’t do that… We’re on the precipice of that.”

Hawaii travel soft opening plan: two tracks to avoid quarantine.

Lieutenant Governor Green, who has frequently been at odds with both the governor and Honolulu’s mayor, and is widely believed to be planning a gubernatorial run himself, is proposing two testing tracks to avoid quarantine.

1. 72 hour PCR pre-travel test. First is the long-touted PCR test to be required within 72 hours of travel to Hawaii.

2. Dual antigen tests pre and post-travel. A new alternative to PCR tests that he is proposing, is for antigen testing to detect virus proteins. Those are to be taken on the mainland within 72 hours of travel and again in Hawaii within 72 hours of arrival. Antigen tests provide results within minutes at a low cost of about $20 per test. Green said about the two tracks,

“This is what I believe will be the right plan.” And he added, “Sooner or later we’re going to have to bite the bullet.”

When he was asked whether Hawaii’s limited infrastructure is ready for tourism including in-Hawaii testing, the lieutenant governor said he thinks the state will be ready.

We already have relationships in place with CVS; Kaiser and Walgreens is coming on, and when we finalize the decision to allow for rapid antigen testing anywhere as long as we do a follow-up, it opens up testing everywhere. It opens the scope and makes everything easier, which is what we need to do. We need to make plans accessible and not burdensome. I don’t think travelers coming in is going to be a big worry.”

Green also addressed the many departures in critical positions within the state, saying, “Going forward, Dr. Libby Char, who is a physician, is fantastic. She’s very subdued, extremely smart and she will provide good health leadership, so that’s a big plus.”

172 thoughts on “Hawaii Travel Now Ready For October Reopening”

  1. With this new Tier, rest assured, no one will get tested anymore with the threat to go back a Tier if not maintained for 2 weeks! I’m sorry but this is not what any other place is doing! With the annual flu season upon us, I only see this becoming a cluster unless it is run solely by the medical community . We don’t have the infrastructure with CVS and Walgreens as touted so why not just say get tested before you come to Hawaii within 72 hours or wait until you have!

  2. Ige said today that the trans Pacific quarantine will likely have to be extended beyond Oct 1st. No other details, no supporting reasoning, no plan, just the promise that they will roll out a time line in the future.

    So we’re right back back where we’ve been for the last several months. It’s impossible to plan travel and those businesses dependent on tourism continue to suffer.

    1. Hi F B, as I sarcastically mentioned below our leadership here in California are waiting to after the election to “open up.” This is all a politically driven problem. Yes CV-19 is real, but 94% of all CV-19 deaths have huge factors associated with them. My neighbor was in an automobile accident and died, his death certificate said cause of death CV-19 because he had it.

      Anyway, it is the belief that Hawaiians and others will not see through this political agenda. Hawaii is awesome and so are their people! Hang in their and see you after the election.

  3. Los Angeles County’s Health Director – Barbara Ferrer recently said “the corona-virus epidemic will be over and kids getting back to school will happen after the election.” So, its getting closer to Aloha time! 😀

  4. Wow! Great news! The testing coupled with the 99.99% recovery rate, Hawaii should be able to get back to business as usual very soon. Awesome!

    1. Sorry Hawaii…your “Devine Leader” has just come out and said Hawaii Quarintine will continue past October 1. He will tell you his new timeline later this week. No Science, No Logic, No Freaking Clue!

  5. All I can say is that I have many RN friends in the medical field here in western Washington. They all say that the hospitals have always been practically empty and that there never was an influx of covid patients that they were expecting even with all the protests going on here. Many medical staff are being laid off because there are minimal patients. One nurse specifically said she has yet to see evidence of a pandemic; she says there are flu or pneumonia deaths, but not any worse than previous years. I realize the media and government are saying one thing but my friends’ first hand observations are saying something very different. That said, I hope the planet is deemed safe to open up again soon without a lot of red tape to go through.

    1. Kat

      Same here, niece is an Rn at a large metro hospital in Northern California has reported no covid surge plenty of ICU beds available.

      We also have many nurses and doctors that service their vehicles with us same story d none of them wear masks.

    2. Maybe not in Washington, but we definitely had a few close calls here in Hawaii. Several days we had positive covid patients in the waiting room because there were no beds available for them. Thank God it didn’t, but that situation could’ve easily escalated.

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