As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be manufactured and delivered worldwide, organizations are looking to technology companies for solutions to resume in-person attendance of concerts, sporting events, school, and other public functions.
Recently, some of the United States’ biggest tech companies and healthcare organizations - including Microsoft, Cerner, Oracle, and the Mayo Clinic - formed The Vaccine Credential Initiative, aimed at ensuring every citizen has access to a secure, digitized record of their COVID-19 vaccination.
Along with acting as a medical record, these digital vaccine records could be used as a passport of sorts, for entry into schools, concerts, public venues - and even help facilitate interstate travel, which so far has been a disparate collection of laws and recommendations. An accurate, verifiable digital record of vaccinations could not only help accelerate a return to social normalcy, but would help states and organizations alike to coordinate more uniformly around COVID-19 restrictions and regulations.
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