Hopes travel far on plans for jabs pass
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More Movement towards Digital COVID Vaccination Records Tuesday, February 9, 2021
A key tech initiative as COVID-19 vaccinations begin rolling out are digital health passports. One example is being developed by a group of large tech companies along with the Mayo Clinic as part of the Vaccination Credential Initiative. The Initiative’s digital vaccination record will likely be a smartphone app. The Initiative is leveraging the CommonPass app, which is already being used by airlines to allow passengers to show a negative COVID-19 test result, which is a requirement to board certain flights.
A goal of digital health passports is to establish universal standards to verify whether a person has had a vaccination. Such digital health passports will become important as governments and major airlines require proof of either negative COVID testing, or eventually of vaccinations. For example, effective January 26, 2021, all air passengers arriving to the U.S. from a foreign cou
An elderly couple try to register through the website in order to have a chance to get the Covid-19 vaccine, but even though they have tried repeatedly to enter their data on the web platform unfortunately they have not been able to register because it has failures and is not available on February 3, 2021 in Mexico City, Mexico Ricardo Castelan Cruz / Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
About 16% of US adults are digitally illiterate yet signing up for the vaccine requires navigating multiple web pages.
Implementation of vaccine passports could be similarly problematic since not everyone has a smartphone.
Privacy concerns about data linked to the verification QR codes need to be addressed before implementation.