In a letter to President Biden yesterday (please see attached), the Good Health Pass Collaborative expressed its disappointment at the administration?s failure to recognize the need for verifiable digital health passes (often generically referred to as digital vaccination certificates) as a precursor to large scale vaccination and testing mandates.

Urgent need for systems

While the letter commended the President for his plan to require employees of companies with more than 100 employees, federal employees, and healthcare workers to be vaccinated, it stressed the urgent need for systems that would enable employers to quickly and easily verify workers? vaccination or test status.

?Our nation?s digital health infrastructure is woefully insufficient to support the successful implementation of this mandate, no matter how well-intentioned,? said ID2020 executive director, Dakota Gruener.

?The cost and complexity of manually checking vaccination cards is both overwhelming and untenable…[and] without a system to digitally verify proof of vaccination, fraud ? on a significant scale ? is all but inevitable”

While many countries ?and several U.S. states? Source: goodhealthpass.org