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Vaccine passports, explained

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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One way that America can get “back to normal” is through what's called a digital vaccine passport. America is well underway with its covid vaccination rollout and while we still have a long way to go, more and more people are getting vaccinated. But while carrying a digital vaccine record sounds like a useful idea, experts warn of privacy issues and serious ethical concerns. Vox’s Rebecca Heilweil explains. References: Read Rebecca’s story here Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn about on Recode Daily? Send your requests and questions to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode was made by: - Host: Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) - Producer: Sofi LaLonde (@sofilalonde) - Engineer: Paul Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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One way that America can get quote unquote back to normal is through what's called a

0:41.8

digital vaccine passport. Now America is well underway with its COVID vaccination

0:47.5

rollout and more and more people are getting vaccinated. But while carrying a

0:51.1

digital vaccine record sounds like a useful idea, experts warn of privacy issues

0:56.8

and ethical concerns. Here to explain is Vox is about to hire a while. Hey. So what

1:03.2

exactly is a vaccine passport? Yes, so a lot of people have been using this term

1:09.2

in recent days. A more accurate way of talking about it might be a digital

1:13.7

vaccination record. So a lot of people are getting these CDC cards that include

1:18.2

information like the batch number that your vaccine came in and your name and your

1:22.4

birth date. But the idea behind these is that instead of just getting this paper

1:27.4

record, you would actually have a digital record of the fact that you got a

1:32.2

COVID-19 vaccination. Okay. The biggest announcement of this thus far has been from

1:36.3

Walmart, which is said it's essentially going to provide these what it's

1:39.3

calling smart health cards that are going to come through your online Walmart

1:42.9

pharmacy accounts that are going to confirm that yes, in fact, you did get a

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