Prognosis
White House Says Private Sector Should Lead on Vaccine Passports
- U.S. government won’t be out front, Biden adviser Slavitt says
- Psaki says there won’t be a centralized U.S. vaccine database
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White House officials said that the push for vaccine passports should come from the private sector and that the federal government won’t take the lead in creating a centralized document proving vaccination.
The U.S. government “is not viewing its role as the place to create a passport, nor a place to hold the data of citizens,” Andy Slavitt, a White House Covid-19 adviser, said Monday in a briefing.