3.6% unemployment, rising wages and best economy in 100 years until you Communists poisoned the world with a bio virus. Well done, Commietard! 18,000 and counting.
LOL 2 passengers on first 100% vaccinated North American cruise test positive for COVID-19 https://www.wfla.com/community/heal...h-american-cruise-test-positive-for-covid-19/
It’s just an emergency meeting about myocarditis! No big deal! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-myocarditis-heart-inflammation-cdc/
German vaccine authority recommends against 18 years and under from taking vaccine unless they have severe comorbs. WELL DONE EVERYONE.
In this case - based on the timing of the tests — their couple came aboard the ship already infected. Thanks to everyone else on the ship being vaccinated there was no broad breakout infecting other passengers. Can you imagine what a fiasco this would have been on a ship where only 30% of the passengers were vaccinated. On a crowded ship the disease would have spread around rapidly infecting dozens then hundreds. Every port would refuse entry to the ship leaving it floating around out in the ocean for weeks — a repeat of the spring of 2020.
The IATA Vaccine passport (or airline / EU versions of it) will soon be required on all International flights worldwide. IATA represents 300 of the world's leading airlines. IATA Travel Pass app to go live soon, providing electronic vaccine passport https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/10/iata-travel-pass-app/ An IATA Travel Pass app is expected to go live sometime within the next couple of weeks, enabling travelers to prove to airlines that they have received COVID-19 vaccinations and/or tested negative for the infection. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the trade association for airlines, representing almost 300 of them … Most countries and airlines already require proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test in order to permit travel, and it’s expected that this will extend to evidence of COVID-19 vaccinations in order to facilitate a return to pre-pandemic travel levels. The app is designed to allow you to import test results from government-recognized laboratories, alongside official government vaccination certificates. That means airlines and border officials will only have to check a single app, with the data presented in a single format, instead of the many different apps provided by different countries. IATA explained how the app will work, and the benefits it will offer. IATA Travel Pass is a mobile app that helps travelers to store and manage their verified certifications for COVID-19 tests or vaccines. It is more secure and efficient than current paper processes used to manage health requirements (the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, for example). This is important given the potentially enormous scale of testing or vaccine verifications that will need to be securely managed. The IATA Travel Pass provides: Governments with the means to verify the authenticity of tests or vaccinations and the identity of those presenting their certificates; airlines with the ability to provide accurate information to their passengers on test requirements and verify that a passenger meets the requirements for travel; laboratories with the means to issue certificates to passengers that will be recognized by governments; and travelers with accurate information on test requirements, where they can get tested or vaccinated, and the means to securely convey the results/certificates to airlines and border authorities. Vaccinations don’t offer complete protection against being infected by COVID-19, but they do dramatically reduce the chances of infection, along with two other benefits. First, among those who are still infected, they massively decrease the severity of symptoms. Second – and crucially for airlines – vaccinated people who do still get infected are far less likely to pass the infection to others. Reuters reports that the app is currently in the testing phase, with 60,000 people enrolled in the beta test. “Feedback (has) been very positive. We expect to go live out of the testing mode in the next couple of weeks,” IATA Director General Willie Walsh told reporters during an online media briefing. (Link includes video on the IATA Travel Pass and more information)
A million Europeans obtain EU Covid health pass ahead of vote https://www.thelocal.se/20210608/a-million-europeans-obtain-eu-covid-health-pass-ahead-of-vote/ More than one million Europeans have obtained the new EU Covid health certificate being rolled out in each country to unlock travel within the bloc, the European Commission said on Tuesday. EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders announced the figure to the European Parliament ahead of a vote to enshrine the scheme in law in time for the continent’s all-important summer tourism season. It is expected to be passed by a big majority after agreement between MEPs and the EU’s 27 member states on details, with the vote result known early on Wednesday. The certificate, also known as a Covid health pass or Covid immunity pass, is to be used for intra-EU travel from July 1st, which would then spare travellers the need for quarantine or further testing for travellers. It will show the bearer’s immunity to Covid-19 either through vaccination or previous infection, or their negative test status. But the commission wants as many EU countries as possible to start earlier. But it relies on countries launching their own digital Covid passes that can be recognised across the EU. The EU will not produce its own app. Some countries are further ahead of others. A spokesman for the EU Commission told The Local: “Every member state will need to develop their national implementation for the EU Digital Covid Certificate. National wallet apps could be developed, but are not the only option. Integration in existing tracing or other apps, commercial solutions, digital storage of PDFs and of course paper certificates are also possible.” Justice Commissioner Reynders said: “The more certificates we can already issue, the easier the process will be during the summer — otherwise, we risk a big bang on the first of July, which we cannot afford.” Nine countries As of Tuesday, nine EU countries were already issuing the certificates — including the sunny tourist destinations of Greece, Spain and Croatia. It is also being trialled in parts of Germany. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Lithuania and Poland were the others. “More than a million citizens have already received such certificates, and many more will follow in the next weeks and months,” Reynders said. The EU Digital Covid Certificate can be presented either in digital format, on a smartphone for example, or printed out on paper. It features a QR code for verification, which border officials and venue staff can use to check against digital signatures stored securely in Luxembourg servers. Only minimal data of the bearer are included on the certificates, to prevent identity skimming, and the EU legislation surrounding their use is due to expire after a year, so that they do not become a fixture with potential Big Brother uses in the future. EU lawmakers and capitals also agreed that, when it comes to proof of vaccinations, only the jabs authorised by the European Medicines Agency — so far those from BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — would be accepted in all EU countries. But individual countries can also decide to accept, for their territory only, others, such as one produced by China, or Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. Money and concessions To prevent discrimination against the unvaccinated — particularly younger Europeans who have not yet been able to access jabs given in priority to the elderly — much emphasis has also been put on testing. The parliament failed to make Covid tests for travel free of charge, but extracted money and concessions from the European Commission to make them more affordable. Reynders said work was ongoing to also expand the use of the EU Digital Covid Certificate so that it is accepted beyond Europe. Talks have been under way with the United States, for some sort of mutual recognition of vaccination status. But have run up against the problem that there is no single federally backed certificated in the US, only a myriad of state and private vaccination cards almost impossible to authenticate abroad.
Gov. Newsom: A vaccination verification system is coming ‘very shortly Electronic system will allow businesses to check who has received shots https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...ification-system-is-coming-very-shortly-in-ca Trying to stay away from the phrase “vaccine passport,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that California is on the cusp of releasing an electronic system that will allow businesses to confirm that their customers have received their shots. During a news conference held at Vista Community Clinic, after completing the second of three vaccine lottery drawings, the governor said that such a system is very much in the works when asked about verification language included in the state’s latest masking guidance released Wednesday. When the state’s tiered reopening system sunsets on Tuesday, California will adopt federal masking guidelines which state that those who remain unvaccinated must continue wearing face coverings indoors. Businesses are given three different options when interacting with unmasked customers and patrons: Just trust them when they say they’re vaccinated, “implement vaccine verification” or require everyone to wear a mask. The second option is somewhat mysterious. To date, the only way to verify a person’s vaccination status is to check the paper vaccination card that each person receives when they get stuck. But it has been clear in recent weeks that many have or intend to forge vaccination cards if and when businesses begin to require them. On May 19, California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned the public not to print fake cards, indicating that his office is aware that counterfeiters were already advertising their shot-faking services online and that any such activity is illegal. Given that all coronavirus doses are recorded in state or county electronic vaccine registry databases, it is technically possible for California to create some method for businesses to check who truly has received their shots and who has not. The governor confirmed Friday that the “vaccine verification” language in the new masking guidelines for businesses does indeed refer to an effort to help private enterprises check inoculation status electronically. “We would look to help support those efforts and modernize the opportunities, and we’ll be making some announcements very shortly in that space,” Newsom said. The governor stressed that the choice is in the hands of each individual business. Clearly mindful of the backlash against so-called “vaccine passports”, he took pains to set the still-unannounced state effort apart. “There is no mandate, no requirement, no passport,” Newsom said, noting that the guidance allows businesses to use such a system or ignore it all together without penalty. He declined to say what form such an electronic verification system might take — whether it might work through, say, a smartphone app, the existing state ID system or some other method — only reiterating Friday that an announcement with deeper details is coming “very shortly.” With infection and hospitalization rates running at historic lows, the governor moved Friday to strike his original stay-at-home order of Mar. 19, 2020.