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Thursday, March 4, 2021 A new commercial has hit the airwaves in Israel. It begins with a door swinging open to reveal a beautiful seaside patio with a couple awaiting their dinners as a voiceover says, “How much have we missed going out with friends?” Well, with the Green Pass “a door simply opens in front of you” and we can “return[ ] to life.” This commercial is advertising Israel’s version of a digital vaccine passport. Although there are still lots of unknowns, there are many countries and industries considering vaccine passport programs like Israel’s, including...

Gutierrez: Celebrate Guam’s COVID Alert success Carl T.C. Gutierrez Håfa adai! We did it; Guam has finally broken Iceland’s springtime record of 38% for the most downloads of the MIT-sponsored COVID Alert app. Our local community of cellphone users has crossed the 40% threshold. And with roughly 30,000 users having activated this sophisticated exposure notification system, our island’s overall containment plan has become all the more robust and well-rounded. Originally developed by engineers with Apple, Google and the PathCheck Foundation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, t...

Rolling Out the Covid Vaccine Is a Huge IT Challenge Four strategies to ensure the vaccination effort is effective, equitable, and secure. by Summary.    The data infrastructure in the United States can’t adequately support the effort to vaccinate the U.S. population against Covid-19. Four steps must be taken: standardize the way personal health data is exchanged; align states’ immunization registries and state and federal reporting analytics; design immunization “passports” that are portable, equitable, and protect privacy; and address privacy, portability, and cyberse...

How new COVIDaware app works (12/16/2020)   To help curb the spread of the coronavirus, Minnesota residents may download a new, free app that alerts them if they are a close contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, and allows them, if they test positive, to anonymously notify their close contacts. State officials aim for the COVIDaware MN app to add to the contact tracing that is already taking place. The more people who download the app, the more effective it will be, University of Minnesota computer science professor Shashi Shekhar shared. “If we c...