Toolkit: Will I Need a Vaccine Passport?
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Bob teams up with NYU medical ethicist Arthur Caplan to tackle your questions about what exactly vaccine passports are, when they might be a reality in the US, how to make sure they’re handled equitably, where you’d need to show them, and much more. Dr. Bob says vaccine passports will dominate conversations this summer, so get ahead of the curve and dive into the topic right now with this Toolkit!
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Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- Learn more about President Biden’s new goal of 200 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/25/vaccine-biden-goal-200-million/
- Watch Art talk about vaccine passports on CNN: https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/03/07/exp-gps-0307-caplan-on-bioethics-of-covid-19-vaccine-passport.cnn
- Here’s more on the Miami Heat’s decision to have vaccinated-only sections at their games: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31123421/miami-heat-open-vaccinated-only-sections-fans-april-1
- Read more about the Excelsior Pass in New York, the first vaccine passport in the US: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/03/26/covid-vaccine-passports-new-york-first-vaccination-proof-system/6976009002/
- This BBC article outlines what other countries are planning to do about vaccine passports: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56522408
- Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/
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| 0:00.0 | It's CVS Health, they know the women's physical, mental, and sexual health matters. |
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| 0:14.0 | to virtual birth control consultations and visits with a board certified provider, |
| 0:18.0 | women's health is it an afterthought. It matters. |
| 0:21.0 | It's CVS Health. Health here happens together. Learn more at CVSHealth.com. |
| 0:27.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to In the Bubble. I'm Dr. Bob Wachter. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, ever since the first reports in early November that we were going to have effective vaccines, |
| 0:52.0 | it immediately became clear to me that the issue of the summer, once there were going to be enough vaccines out there for people to choose to get vaccinated or not, |
| 1:02.0 | the issue of the summer was going to be vaccination passports or vaccination authentication. |
| 1:07.0 | In other words, will people need to show proof of vaccination in order to access something? |
| 1:13.0 | It is happening pretty fast in part because the vaccine rollout is moving along pretty swiftly. |
| 1:20.0 | In part, thanks to our friend Andy Slavitt. |
| 1:23.0 | And it is relevant to all sorts of public settings, whether it's travel or entering a restaurant or a hotel or a theater or a stadium. |
| 1:34.0 | And it's got, it's a multifaceted issue. It has elements that are related to an individual. |
| 1:41.0 | Like if it's me and I'm vaccinated and I'm going into a restaurant where everyone's going to have their masks off, |
| 1:47.0 | really would love to know that everybody in there is vaccinated that might make me more comfortable going. |
| 1:52.0 | So there are kind of individual issues, but then just as importantly, there are societal issues. |
| 1:57.0 | We all have an interest in reaching herd immunity in getting to a point where enough of the population is vaccinated that the virus cannot find a toehold where we are, |
| 2:08.0 | whether that's locally or in the United States or around the world, and slinks away into feet. |
| 2:14.0 | And it may very well be the only way that we reach that point of herd immunity is to provide some level of incentive for vaccination or disincentive for not being vaccinated. |
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