{"id":1345,"date":"2021-05-04T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2021-05-04T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:54:21","slug":"what-are-the-pros-cons-of-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"What are the pros\/cons of vaccine passports?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Question:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0I was just reading that the Governor of Florida signed a bill banning vaccine passports, which got me thinking about the issue all over again.\u00a0 What are the pros\/cons of the “vaccine passport” approach?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Many scientists and ethicists have written about this issue.\u00a0 Travel eligibility has been the main focus of the discussion\/debate, but use of passports to regulate\u00a0access to a variety of activities is increasingly in the spotlight.\u00a0 For example, Israel\u2019s “Green Pass”<\/a> and New York’s “Excelsior Pass”<\/a> permit entry to indoor social events (like concerts) that would otherwise be restricted.\u00a0 A paper recently published in New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, \u201cVaccine Passport\u201d Certification \u2014 Policy and Ethical Considerations<\/a>, offers an overview of some of the issues.\u00a0 I’ve used that paper to synthesize the main arguments for and against vaccine passports (aka digital health passes<\/a>)\u00a0(Table)<\/strong>.\u00a0 Generally, I think such passes could be good for access to services that are not vital (like going to an indoor concert or crowded sporting event)– here, they could be a behavioral nudge to get the vaccine.\u00a0 On the flip side, if such passes were mandated by the government and\/or used to access vital services\/commodities\/opportunities\u00a0(like housing), they could increase inequality, increase anti-government sentiment, and increase vaccine hesitancy.\u00a0 As the Council on Foreign Relations<\/em>\u00a0recently reported <\/a>in its recent synthesis of vaccine passports, “President Joe Biden\u2019s administration said the federal government will not require vaccine passports, though private businesses and schools could do so.”\u00a0 This approach is likely the most palatable given the current nature of the debate in the US.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table. Arguments for and against Vaccine Passports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure. Race\/ethnicity of people who have received at least one vaccine dose <\/strong>(from CDC<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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