Thursday, November 21, 2024
Hawai'i Free Press

Current Articles | Archives

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
COVID-19 testing pre-departure may eliminate 90% of infectious passengers
By UHERO @ 4:03 AM :: 3021 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19

COVID-19 testing pre-departure may eliminate 90% of infectious passengers

From UH News, June 9, 2020

A new University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) report provides a plan to limit the reintroduction of COVID-19 from travelers entering Hawaiʻi.

Sumner La Croix, UHERO research fellow and UH Mānoa professor emeritus of economics in the College of Social Sciences; F. DeWolfe Miller, John A. Burns School of Medicine professor emeritus; and Tim Brown, East-West Center senior fellow recommend that individuals who clear a temperature and symptom screening, and a COVID-19 test in their departure city will not be required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival to Hawaiʻi.

The documentation should be completed using a mobile app, and kept confidential to the passenger, their ticketed airline, home state, Hawaiʻi public health officials and, if requested, their private physician. Anyone arriving without clearance documentation will be required to quarantine for 14 days.

Implementing temperature and symptom screening in their departure cities is expected to remove one-third of infectious passengers to Hawaiʻi and COVID-19 tests conducted in their departure cities are expected to remove up to 90 percent of infectious passengers….

>>> Read the full post on UHERO’s website. <<<

As Explained May 2, 2020: A Low-Risk Plan to Re-Start Hawaii Tourism Now

CB: Experts: Test Passengers To Reopen Hawaii Tourism

HTH: UH proposal calls for strict preflight screening of out-of-state passengers

Links

TEXT "follow HawaiiFreePress" to 40404

Register to Vote

2aHawaii

Aloha Pregnancy Care Center

AntiPlanner

Antonio Gramsci Reading List

A Place for Women in Waipio

Ballotpedia Hawaii

Broken Trust

Build More Hawaiian Homes Working Group

Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii

Cliff Slater's Second Opinion

DVids Hawaii

FIRE

Fix Oahu!

Frontline: The Fixers

Genetic Literacy Project

Grassroot Institute

Habele.org

Hawaii Aquarium Fish Report

Hawaii Aviation Preservation Society

Hawaii Catholic TV

Hawaii Christian Coalition

Hawaii Cigar Association

Hawaii ConCon Info

Hawaii Debt Clock

Hawaii Defense Foundation

Hawaii Family Forum

Hawaii Farmers and Ranchers United

Hawaii Farmer's Daughter

Hawaii Federation of Republican Women

Hawaii History Blog

Hawaii Jihadi Trial

Hawaii Legal News

Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance

Hawaii Matters

Hawaii Military History

Hawaii's Partnership for Appropriate & Compassionate Care

Hawaii Public Charter School Network

Hawaii Rifle Association

Hawaii Shippers Council

Hawaii Together

HiFiCo

Hiram Fong Papers

Homeschool Legal Defense Hawaii

Honolulu Navy League

Honolulu Traffic

House Minority Blog

Imua TMT

Inouye-Kwock, NYT 1992

Inside the Nature Conservancy

Inverse Condemnation

July 4 in Hawaii

Land and Power in Hawaii

Lessons in Firearm Education

Lingle Years

Managed Care Matters -- Hawaii

MentalIllnessPolicy.org

Missile Defense Advocacy

MIS Veterans Hawaii

NAMI Hawaii

Natatorium.org

National Parents Org Hawaii

NFIB Hawaii News

NRA-ILA Hawaii

Obookiah

OHA Lies

Opt Out Today

Patients Rights Council Hawaii

Practical Policy Institute of Hawaii

Pritchett Cartoons

Pro-GMO Hawaii

RailRipoff.com

Rental by Owner Awareness Assn

Research Institute for Hawaii USA

Rick Hamada Show

RJ Rummel

School Choice in Hawaii

SenatorFong.com

Talking Tax

Tax Foundation of Hawaii

The Real Hanabusa

Time Out Honolulu

Trustee Akina KWO Columns

Waagey.org

West Maui Taxpayers Association

What Natalie Thinks

Whole Life Hawaii