Hawaii can learn from what’s happening elsewhere, including Alaska, Europe and the Middle East. Does Hawaii even have a plan?
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LOL! Yeah, right. All of the places that have successfully implemented something have functional local governments and bureaucracies. And even then, in Germany, there are all sorts of problems with their testing regime. Today the backlog in Bavaria from one of the autobahn facilities is so bad that people will either be dead or better by the time they get their results back. Unfortunately, Ige can barely rev up his two brain cells long enough to walk and chew gum at the same time. That means this doesn’t end well for Hawaii either economically or epidemiologically. Any yet, Ige will probably get re-elected. Hilarious.
Hawaii is getting punched in the face right now by a virus that’s gonna virus. People can sit in denial all they want, but eradicating a virus without a vaccine similar to that for polio is a pipe dream. Yet the chances of finding a polio-like vaccine for a coronavirus is silly. I think there will be a vaccine in the near future, but it will be like the flu vaccine and only show partial efficacy. Meaning COVID-19 is still gonna kill the people it would have anyway.
Iceland provides testing on arrival for a fee. Alternative is 14 days quarantine. And then having tested, you are advised to socially distance for the first 5 days but you are free to otherwise carry on your life. But if you’re staying longer than 10 days you need to retest on day 4 to 6. This is provided free (or included in your first test fee), but you need to either arrange an appointment at a local facility or there is one walk-in centre in the city.
They had eliminated community spread, but that is no longer as people have arrived, tested negative but were still incubating the disease and so have ended up developing symptoms a few days later.
Iceland was looking like a nice safe place to visit, but is now being put on the red list of quarantine required locations for the rest of Europe.
The UK has looked at the testing on arrival and also on day X approach, but has decided the risk of more entering the country is too great.
I don’t think there are any real easy solutions to this, or countries around the world would have come up with them. But we will all just have to continue to do our part with social distancing. Unfortunately, once we let our guards down with friends and family, that’s when we’re most likely to get infected.
Thank you for all the info. I am scheduled to fly in on a sunday, there is no way I can get my results on the weekend. Also I am finding it hard to even get a test if you don’t have symptoms. Do you have any suggestions to were I would go for a travel covid test?
Hi Lisa.
The state has not confirmed this. We hope to hear in the next few days. Otherwise quarantine remains in effect until further notice.
Aloha.
Hawaii needs to contract with a major national pharmacy to provide test results that aheard to Hawaii test requirements ( 72 or 94 hrs). This will simply make travel to Hawaii a easy task not a huge unknown ordeal.
thanks for the update……looking forward to 9/1……its either kauai or somewhere else, but I prefer kauai.
Does Hawaii really only allow NAAT test results (as per the official Regulation)? Those are super hard to obtain.
I’ve been told it’s the same as a PRC test. Is it indeed different? I couldn’t find anywhere in our entire state that did an NAAT test.
Ken B… Posted about my concern re NAAT as well and then, after searching numerous times over the last month, found this… it appears that PCR test is just one of a number of NAAT tests. Perhaps the use of NAAT is to prevent people from thinking an Antibody Test is acceptable which it is not.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) – including nested (n), quantitative (q) or real-time reverse transcription (RT) PCR), loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), and quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (QT-NASBA) – are among the key NAATs developed to detect malaria.