Vaccine Passports
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As global Covid vaccine passports become a reality, we have to make sure they’re fair
We have arrived at another of those moments, in this pandemic, where it’s critically important that countries respect a central decision-making body rather than go their own way. The issue on the table now is the use of health certificates to regulate international travel.
Sometimes, pandemic decisions need to be made locally to reflect the local context – mask-wearing in schools is an example – but sometimes they really need to be centralised. We saw what can go wrong if they’re not: for example when, in the absence of a federal policy, US states ended up bidding against each other for personal protective equipment from China.
International travel is an obvious case where…
Resources
Apps
... we've rounded up the best apps currently available, as well as a few other vaccination resources.
Is There An App That'll Prove I'm Vaccinated, Or Is Paper The Best? September 24, 20211:21 PM ET
I'm hearing of more and more activities that will require proof of vaccination: eating out, going to a concert, flying internationally — and likely at some point domestically in the U.S. Do I really need to carry around that awkwardly sized paper proof-of-vaccine card?
The Futility of Vaccine Passports
Domestic vaccine passports are fine on the surface, but they don’t provide help to the people who need it most.
What Are the Roadblocks to a ‘Vaccine Passport’?
Creating a digital certificate of vaccination against the coronavirus is one of the hottest debates right now. What’s keeping it from happening, and why are some people opposed?
A Better Solution Than Laminating Your Vaccine Card
Vaccine passports, in some form, are going to be a basic necessity as the United States begins to crawl its way out of the pandemic. Nevertheless, the idea has staunch opponents.
A Look at Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Passports,’ Passes and Apps Around the Globe
A variety of digital and old-fashioned approaches are being used to confirm vaccination for entry to public places. But the world is still far from a universal standard of proof for crossing borders.
Can Vaccine Passports Actually Work?
... the promise of bringing back a normal life fuels extraordinary support for these schemes. More than 66 percent of Americans approve of digital vaccine passports to reopen the domestic economy, according to a survey from the Institute for Technology and Global Health. These numbers are comparable to the 67 percent approval rate in Denmark. Across international borders, on average 78 percent of the global population supports vaccine passports for international travel even if vaccine access is unequal across countries.
Coming ‘Vaccine Passports’ Aim for Simplicity
Designers of the health passes hope unfussy apps will reduce stress for passengers pre-flight, quickly providing proof of a negative Covid-19 test or a vaccination.
The Covid-19 vaccine passports in development for 2021
Until these debates are settled and standardization agreed on, infection screening rather than vaccination status, is likely to be the standard of proof for travelers to go anywhere in the near future.
The U.S. Has Had 'Vaccine Passports' Before—And They Worked
Ensuring that a person’s vaccination status can be verifiable and visible through documentation would be an important tool for lifting quarantines and defeating COVID-19. Like the scars of the past, vaccine passports could help Americans to finally bring this pandemic to an end.
Vaccine passports can liberate America
The CDC’s new mask guidance promises freedom. Vaccine passports can make it reality.
Vaccine Passports: 'Scarlet Letter' Or Just The Ticket?
Ultimately, some are hoping vaccine passports, will prove one last bitter pill to swallow to help hasten a return to normal. It may be the carrot that induces more people to vaccinate.
Vaccine Passports: What Are They, and Who Might Need One?
The concept of documenting vaccinations is being taken to new levels of sophistication, and experts predict that electronic verification will soon become commonplace.
Vaccine passports: why they are good for society
As members of a society, it is our moral obligation to get vaccinated to protect everyone in our community. Vaccination passports will help with this and also enhance quality of life and wellbeing as we return to normal daily life.
Your most important vaccine passport questions, answered
The term “vaccine passport” generally refers to a smartphone app that can quickly confirm that someone has received a Covid-19 vaccine, so the phone’s owner can do things like enter a venue or board a plane. The debate over vaccine passports, however, often confuses these apps with the broader issue of how vaccination records are handled.
As global Covid vaccine passports become a reality, we have to make sure they’re fair
Discrimination against those from poorer countries seems inevitable unless everyone accepts the WHO’s guidelines
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