From the G7 agenda reporting:<p>“ Last Friday morning, during an interview on Good Morning America, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Biden administration was taking “a very close look” at the possibility of vaccine passports for travel into and out of the United States.<p>However by Friday afternoon the Department of Homeland Security was clarifying Mayorkas’ statement. The DHS says there won’t be any federal vaccination database nor any mandate that requires people to get a single vaccination credential. It also said there are no plans for anything like a U.S. passport.”<p>The U.S. is suspicious of many types of documentation. E.g. none needed for voting in many areas, etc. The culture tends towards erring on less bureaucracy.<p>If more states ban covid-passports, I wonder if the EU would rather not have tourists than allow visitations.<p>Once there is a vaccine surplus, the vast amount of risk is on those who decide out of their own volition to not get vaccinated, at which point society can’t hold their hands anymore.
This will be same for the European Union Green Certificate (DGC): <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/covid-19_en" rel="nofollow">https://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/covid-19_en</a><p>The German app and implentation will be on GitHub too: <a href="https://github.com/Digitaler-Impfnachweis" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Digitaler-Impfnachweis</a>
The inoculation certificate validity is currently 180 days since the last jab (looking at the slide deck in the repo). That seems super short. Will people really need 2 courses of jabs each year (that is 4 jabs with most current vaccines)?
I recently did a write up [1] of the Lithuanian vaccine certificate after finding a flaw on it.<p>What impressed me was that the verification was done fully offline in a privacy preserving way<p>[1] <a href="https://tadas.varanauskas.lt/posts/forging-lithuanian-vaccine-certificate" rel="nofollow">https://tadas.varanauskas.lt/posts/forging-lithuanian-vaccin...</a>
Whereas the technological aspect and questions are very interesting, this certificate has the sole purpose to divide the people.<p>I am devastated to see this coming.
Will there be an international format for vaccine certificates or are border controls expected to implement every certificate format for every issuing country for incoming travellers?