People who get COVID-19 shots at thousands of Walmart and Sam’s
Club stores may soon be able to verify their vaccination status at airports,
schools and other locations using a health passport app on their smartphones.
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The retail giant said that it had signed on to an international
effort to provide standardized digital vaccination credentials to people. The
company joins a push already backed by major health centers and tech companies
including Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, Epic Systems, the Mitre
Corporation and the Mayo Clinic.
“Walmart is the first huge-scale administrator of vaccines that
is committing to giving people a secure, verifiable record of their
vaccinations,” said Paul Meyer, chief executive of the Commons Project
Foundation, a nonprofit in Geneva that has developed health passport apps. “We
think many others will follow.”
The company said people who get COVID shots at Walmart and Sam’s
Club stores will be able to use free health passport apps to verify their
vaccination records and then generate smartphone codes that could allow them to
board a plane or enter a sports area.
The apps include Health Pass developed by Clear, a security
company that uses biometric technology to confirm people’s identities at
airports, and CommonPass, developed by the Commons Project.
JetBlue and Lufthansa are already using the CommonPass app to
verify passengers’ negative virus test results before they can board certain
flights.
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