Toolkit: Will I Need a Vaccine Passport?

Dr. Bob teams up with NYU medical ethicist Arthur Caplan to tackle your questions about what exactly vaccine passports are, when they might be a reality in the US, how to make sure they’re handled equitably, where you’d need to show them, and much more. Dr. Bob says vaccine passports will dominate conversations this summer, so get ahead of the curve and dive into the topic right now with this Toolkit!

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

Learn more about President Biden’s new goal of 200 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/25/vaccine-biden-goal-200-million/

Watch Art talk about vaccine passports on CNN: https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/03/07/exp-gps-0307-caplan-on-bioethics-of-covid-19-vaccine-passport.cnn

Here’s more on the Miami Heat’s decision to have vaccinated-only sections at their games: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31123421/miami-heat-open-vaccinated-only-sections-fans-april-1

Read more about the Excelsior Pass in New York, the first vaccine passport in the US: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/03/26/covid-vaccine-passports-new-york-first-vaccination-proof-system/6976009002/

This BBC article outlines what other countries are planning to do about vaccine passports: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56522408

Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/ 

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