{"id":117782,"date":"2020-12-30T03:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T11:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/la-plans-to-issue-digital-passports-with-coronavirus-vaccines"},"modified":"2020-12-30T03:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T11:23:56","slug":"la-plans-to-issue-digital-passports-with-coronavirus-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/la-plans-to-issue-digital-passports-with-coronavirus-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"LA Plans to Issue Digital \u201cPassports\u201d With Coronavirus Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/la-plans-to-issue-digital-passports-with-coronavirus-vaccines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts first floated immunity passports as <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/immunity-passports-help-society-back-normal\">something to give people who had recovered from COVID-19<\/a>, but the idea was laden with <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/bioethicist-covid19-immunity-passports-bad-idea\">ethical and logistical concerns<\/a> \u2014 especially since scientists weren\u2019t sure how long coronavirus antibodies lasted after a patient recovered.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of the immune system\u2019s response to COVID-19, this new system built by the medical testing platform startup Healthvana would show whether someone had been vaccinated, likely a more robust indicator that they\u2019re no longer infectious.<\/p>\n<p>After vaccination, you\u2019d be able to take out your smartphone and show you\u2019d been inoculated \u201cto prove to airlines, to prove to schools, to prove to whoever needs it,\u201d Healthvana CEO Ramin Bastani told <em>Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts first floated immunity passports as something to give people who had recovered from COVID-19, but the idea was laden with ethical and logistical concerns \u2014 especially since scientists weren\u2019t sure how long coronavirus antibodies lasted after a patient recovered. But instead of the immune system\u2019s response to COVID-19, this new system built by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}