BREAKING NEWS: Announcing the Launch of a Nationwide Vaccine Verification Initiative

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Andy breaks the news about a new nationwide digital vaccine verification initiative to be formally announced next week. Andy talks with the system's architect, Paul Meyer, and California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Rick Klau. They discuss why the federal government isn't creating its own verification system, how Californians have responded to the state's Digital Vaccine Record, and where you can get a digital record of your COVID-19 vaccine status right now.

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Learn more about the SMART Health Cards Global Forum on October 28: https://events.zoom.us/ev/ANEak-EndgU6srtMF5CNSahdECUM5qwpkv1uC6ic-qo3OXjjxlb4j5Bt8Zjgahjp_Ti2Tn4
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Here’s more on the slipping poll numbers for governors who attack vaccine mandates: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/17/governors-covid-vaccine-mandates-approval-516112
Read more about the plan to let fully vaccinated travelers back into the US starting November 8: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/us-border-travel-restrictions-november-8/index.html
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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0:00.0	Mental health challenges are affecting people in the US at high levels, particularly among
0:05.0	adolescents.
0:06.0	At CVS Health, mental health is just as important as physical health.
0:11.0	That's whether making mental, well-being services more accessible, less complicated, more
0:15.4	convenient, and more inviting.
0:18.0	CVS Health is doing this by creating new programs, encouraging care to discussions, and providing
0:23.2	increased access to digital tools and telehealth services.
0:27.0	CVS Health is there to help.
0:31.0	Learn more at CVS Health.com.
0:34.0	Let me know.
0:38.0	The law governor DeSantis signed prevents government agencies or businesses from requiring
0:42.5	people to show proof of vaccination.
0:44.9	The law which went to affect last month sets a $5,000 fine for each violation.
0:49.7	Nonetheless, Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor was shocked this week when Florida's
0:53.5	Health Department hit the county with a $3.5 million fine for requiring it's more than
0:58.6	700 employees to be vaccinated.
1:00.5	It just be fine.
1:01.5	$3 million dollars because you don't do what I say in an area of policy is unheard of.
1:09.5	Welcome to the bubble.
1:29.2	This is your host Andy Slavitt.
1:32.1	We have a very edgy and topical show today and we're going to go right at the heart of
1:36.8	the matter about why people are not required to demonstrate that they've been vaccinated
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