COVID Vaccine Certificates

Digital certificates for the COVID-19 vaccine—“vaccine passports” or “digital yellow cards”—are a hot topic as governments try to chart a course back to normal. What can we learn from countries that have begun to implement vaccine certificates, and from the lessons of digital ID rollouts?

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COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate: Will the US Catch Up with the Rest of the World?
Alan Gelb
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Anit Mukherjee
April 05, 2021
As economies start opening up, the COVID Vaccine Certificate is increasingly becoming a ticket to return to normality, lifting restrictions on work, travel and leisure. Because of the formidable constraints, any US path to a CVC should start with a light touch.
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A COVID Vaccine Certificate: Building on Lessons from Digital ID for the Digital Yellow Card
Alan Gelb
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Anit Mukherjee
February 11, 2021
COVID-19 vaccination efforts are well and truly underway across the world. In addition to those in Europe and North America, vaccination campaigns are gathering pace across China, India, Russia, and the Middle East, though lagging in many other, mostly poor, countries. As more start scaling up their...
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Certificate of COVID Vaccination: Can We Do Better than the Yellow Card?
Alan Gelb
and
Anit Mukherjee
November 25, 2020
Can technology help? At the most basic level, a COVID ID would be a digitized version of the Yellow Card, the paper-based International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis that many international travelers carry with them traveling to and from high-risk areas of the world.