{"id":120451,"date":"2020-06-09T14:13:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T00:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=120451"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:29:35","slug":"covid19-testing-before-departure-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/09\/covid19-testing-before-departure-report\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 testing pre-departure may eliminate 90% of infectious passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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A new University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> (UHERO<\/abbr>) report provides a plan to limit the reintroduction of COVID-19 from travelers entering Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Sumner La Croix<\/strong>, UHERO<\/abbr> research fellow and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa professor emeritus of economics in the College of Social Sciences<\/a>; F. DeWolfe Miller<\/strong>, John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> professor emeritus; and Tim Brown, East-West Center<\/a> 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 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The documentation should be completed using a mobile app, and kept confidential to the passenger, their ticketed airline, home state, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> public health officials and, if requested, their private physician. Anyone arriving without clearance documentation will be required to quarantine for 14 days.<\/p>\n

Implementing temperature and symptom screening in their departure cities is expected to remove one-third of infectious passengers to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and COVID-19 tests conducted in their departure cities are expected to remove up to 90 percent of infectious passengers.<\/p>\n

Read the full post on UHERO<\/abbr>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n