Daily News | A digital COVID vaccination record is coming in Philly, but is there a need?
Philadelphia is pushing ahead with an effort to issue digital vaccine cards to residents, though businesses and health experts say they may be irrelevant at this stage in the pandemic.
has no plans to renew any COVID-19 safety restrictions. It declined to say when the digital cards will be available, citing technical issues with the rollout. For decades, health experts have sought a national vaccination database that would allow a physician anywhere to see a patient’s vaccination history. Privacy concerns, though, kept such a database from being created.national record-keeping system sparked by the pandemic has recently waned. That’s in part because vaccinated people are still able to transmit the virus, making vaccination less critical as a tool to prevent COVID’s spread.
Across the country, interest has varied widely. Last month, Delaware estimated that 10% of people have accessed their records electronically.
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