Update your vaccination status to skip your wellness check

The push is to have all students, employees, and ʻohana initiate their vaccination by July 1 to be fully vaccinated by the time we start the school year.

Jun. 24, 2021

Contributed by Shaundor Chillingworth

Vaccination, while remaining a personal choice, is another layer of protection for our community and gives us the clearest path to return to normalcy as we reopen in August. We hope that all eligible individuals (ages 12 and up) do take advantage of the availability of vaccinations in our community, so that we can protect each other and return to a number of things that make the school experience fun, including social activities and sports.

For ʻohana where keiki are not age-eligible to receive the vaccine, we are encouraging all members of their household to get vaccinated to further reduce the risk and spread of the virus.

Those students and employees who are fully vaccinated will also be able to update their status and be able to trade-off some of the layered safety protocols in place. That includes:

No daily wellness checks -
Vaccinated students and employees will no longer need to complete daily wellness checks. Upon verification of vaccination status, students will receive a vaccination badge email, which can be screenshot, saved, or printed to be shown in place of the normal green happy face email each morning. Faculty and staff will receive a daily COVID-19 clearance email automatically.
No quarantine for close contacts -
Vaccinated students identified as close contact, whether at school or through other school activities, will not need to complete a 10-day quarantine, in alignment with Hawaiʻi and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidance.
Exempt from COVID-19 surveillance testing
Fully vaccinated individuals will no longer need to do any kind of surveillance testing.

STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS

Upon completing the 2nd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, each student can now upload their vaccination card to the Mo'omō'ali Olakino Electronic Health Records portal.

SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO UPDATE EACH STUDENT’S EHR FOR VACCINATION CARD

FOR FACULTY AND STAFF

The COVID-19 Response Team has set up a specific KS Employee Vaccination Registry to upload your information, which will provide a daily clearance email. Simply fill out the form and upload your card to be added to the secure registry.

The information will help us understand the number of vaccinated haumāna and hoa kumu in our learning community, which will also guide our planning of the types and frequency of activities that can take place.

If choosing to not be vaccinated, then a number of those layered protocols we have had in place will still need to be followed and limitations on what we are able to do.

In order to be fully vaccinated by the start of the school year on August 5, students will need to receive their second COVID-19 vaccination by July 22, which means July 1 is the latest date to start the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination process.

If you need kōkua connecting with vaccination opportunities, the County of Hawaiʻi has a vaccination portal with a calendar of community opportunities and vendors on our island offering the vaccine. We will also be hosting our 3rd on-campus vaccination clinic on Saturday, July 10. Email kshawaii@ksbe.edu if you would be interested in participating.

Mālama pono!

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