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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We will never have anything like Israel's internal Covid Green pass, but it has been wildly effective there.

Basically, you need to show that you have been vaccinated ([b]and there records are centralized[/b] so there is little to no fear of people just lying or getting a fake vaccine card) to get into all sorts of places.  But, because of these rules, a lot of life has gone back to pretty close to normal.[/quote]

We do have centralized vaccine records, maintained on each state's existing immunization information system.[/quote]

But we have 50 different states, not one central government record.  That greatly complicates things, particularly as you have some states making it illegal to have anything like a vaccine passport.  [/quote]

But any qualified person can get accounts to check at any state online. So, for example, HeadStart personnel are authorized access to all state IISs -- they just need to set up accounts.

It would be just simple paperwork to authorize airline agents to access any or all state vaccine registries.[/quote]

That "simple paperwork" would not be so simple bureaucratically or, more importantly, politically.  And in Israel it is used almost everywhere -- concerts, restaurants, etc.  For better or worse, [b]we are not going to allow the hostess at Applebee's [/b]access to these kind of records. [/quote]

Sure. But it's not limited to either "everybody" or "nobody" -- there are categories in between. Schools (esp. public school nurses), HeadStart employees, and pharmacists are all eligible to open accounts, among others (including providers). That group can be expanded if justified. It isn't justified right now, but if things worsened with new variants and we started to look more like India, it might well be.

And before someone brings up HIPAA, "Reporting of immunizations to an IIS are exempt from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule since it is considered a public health activity." ( https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/resources-refs/faq.html#Q5 ) [/quote]

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