
Californiaâs Orange County plans to launch a pilot program for digital CCP virus vaccine and testing passports, according to health officials.
The vaccine and testing credentialing arrangement will be rolled out sometime in April, Orange County Health Care Agency officials said on Twitter.
âThe Digital Passport enables individuals to participate safely and with peace of mind in activities that involve interactions with other people, including travel, attractions, conferences/meetings, concerts, sports, school and more,â officials added.
While details are scant about how the digital vaccine passport would work, the Orange County health agencyâs director and health officer, Dr. Clayton Chau, told the O.C. Register that the countyâs existing Othena vaccine scheduling app could be modified to include a credentialing feature.
The Othena app is being used to schedule vaccine appointments at the countyâs mass inoculation sites, including at Disneyland.
Chau also told the outlet that printed cards could be issued for use by people who donât use smartphones.
California Public Health Officer Dr. TomĂĄs AragĂłn said last week that there are currently no plans to create a state-level vaccination passport system, although health officials are looking into formulating standards and guidelines around the use of such credentials, KTLA reported.
AragĂłn said that if federal authorities âdonât move fast enoughâ with developing such guidelines, âwe will come up with technical standards that will be expectedâreally focusing on making sure that privacy is protected and that equity is protected.â
It comes amid controversy over vaccine passport-style systems, which have been proposed in some countries, and as some U.S. states and regions have either considered their adoption or moved forward with their deployment.
Hawaii Gov. David Igeâs latest emergency proclamation includes a plan for vaccine passports that would allow travelers to avoid quarantine and COVID-19 testing. While there is no timeline for its adoption and it still needs approval by the director of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, Lt. Gov. Josh Green told Hawaii News Now that the plan is to launch a pilot for inter-island travel by May 1.
New York state has also rolled out its âExcelsior Passâ system that would require people to show that they have been vaccinated when trying to enter certain events and locations.
Additional source — LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-14/orange-county-supervisors-vaccine-passport-public-backlash
“…the county government backed down from their plan to implement the vaccine passport system, however, the new plan is for businesses to discriminate against peopleâs health status if they reject vaccines, however, which is illegal.” Actually, that would most likely be treasonous and terrorism against the American people whose representatives they (those who serve within government) are supposed to be. They most certainly are not keeping the US Constitutionally required oath of office, nor are they following and keeping the directives within the Constitution’s (state and fed) as they are required – also a crime that is (if I remember… Read more »
These ‘passports’ are no different than what the communists did in the USSR and the Nazis did during WWII! They are the ‘papers please’ BS!!!