The lack of clarity about the impact of the vaccine has not prevented companies like IBM from developing a smartphone application to track who has been vaccinated or not.
Vaccine passports may be required in the near future.
Major technology companies are working on creating apps for smartphones that will allow users to upload their vaccines and COVID-19 information. Some experts say that this may be a requirement for traveling and entering spaces such as cinemas and shows, for CNN.
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Coronavirus vaccines have recently started to be deployed in the United States and, despite the fact that there are still doubts about the impact of the vaccine, companies are already working on applications to help control the spread.
“We still don’t know whether vaccinated people can transmit the infection or not,” said Dr. Julie Parsonnet for CNN Business. “Until this is cleared up, we will not know whether ‘passports’ will be effective.”
But the lack of clarity has not prevented companies like IBM from developing a smartphone app to track who has been vaccinated or not.
“If we are successful, you should be able to say: I have a vaccination certificate on my phone that I received when I was vaccinated in a country,” he said Brian Behlendorf, executive director of the Linux Foundation, a technology company that helps public health officials beat COVID-19.
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“With a whole set of health management practices … which I usually do I took a plane to a totally different country and then I presented a vaccination credential in that new country so that I could go to that show that was happening at home and whose participation was limited to those who demonstrated having had the vaccine.
IBM created an application called Digital Health Pass, which can be stored in your Google wallet and provide information such as vaccine status, temperature and other health-related information to gain access to an establishment that requires it.
Vaccine passports may be available as early as the first half of 2021.
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The post-Coronavirus vaccine passports being developed for travel in 2021 first appeared on TheGrio.