California rolls out digital vaccine verification — but don’t call it a passport
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(Worthy News) – Don’t call it a vaccine passport, but California now offers something that’s awfully close.
The state’s Departments of Public Health and Technology unveiled a website Friday that lets users who verify their identities get digital copies of their Covid-19 vaccination record.
Called the Digital Covid-19 Vaccine Record portal, the site is meant as a digital backup to the paper cards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that Americans receive when they get a Covid-19 vaccination, said Amy Tong, the state’s chief information officer. [ Source: NBC News (Read More…) ]
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