New York's Covid vaccine passport:
Variants and eased restrictions are pushing cases up around the United States. College commencements are largely on hold again, with a few universities proceeding without guests. Six states will open vaccines to all adults on Monday.
www.nytimes.com
I downloaded the app and tried it. It properly identified my vaccination status quickly. Certainly not easy to "forge." You'd have to steal someone else's vaccination health information, and then you would need a photo ID matching the person you stole from. Not impossible, but much easier to just get the vaccine.
For now, it appears it will be used at larger venues like sports stadiums, as well as for things like weddings. My daughter's Bat Mitzvah is finally happening, and we were basically told we would need to use the passport if we wanted to have more than 50 guests.
I wonder to what degree businesses will be encouraged to voluntarily require the passport.
I can actually imagine bars being allowed to operate at full un-masked capacity if they check the passport, just like they normally check IDs. Unlike a restaurant or regular entertainment venue which will include kids who aren't even eligible for the vaccine, a bar that is 21+ could ban anyone unvaccinated, using the passport to check. And a gathering of people that are 100% vaccinated should be safe maskless.
I still find it doubtful anything like this passport will be rolled out nationwide. But with the quickening pace of vaccination, if a national passport is to get any headway, you'd start to see it in the next 30 days.