Almost 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered in the United States.

Something like 75 million people have been fully vaccinated.

Almost a billion people have received a shock globally.

With so many people itching to get back to normal, it's inevitable that we start talking

about proving you have the vaccine.

Some call this proof of vaccine passport, but our guest today will explain why that's

a bit of a loaded term.

Yeah.

So one of the big challenges with this discussion is that a whole bunch of things are now

being bucketed into this term vaccine passport.

Our guest today is Rebecca Highwell from Rico.

So broadly it essentially just means a record of the fact that you have received in an

occupation or a vaccine.

Recently it's come to refer to the idea that this record might be on your smartphone.

It might be on a pass that you carry in the pandemic.

And it would basically include a record from maybe a health provider that's given you

that vaccine or a government or a state health authority that confirms that you have had

this vaccine and you've been inoculated for COVID-19.

But one thing I'd really, really push against is actually calling them vaccine passports.

One of the challenges has been that term implies that it means you can actually go places

and it's going to give you all these privileges, which it's just part of it.

But I think a lot of the things that are being rolled out right now are simply digital

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