Orange County officials are reassuring the public they will not issue any mandates regarding access to public or private places depending on a resident's vaccine status, but said they're working on a program to provide digital proof of inoculation if a vaccine recipient wishes to have it.
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SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County officials are reassuring the public they will not issue any mandates regarding access to public or private places depending on a resident s vaccine status, but said they re working on a program to provide digital proof of inoculation if a vaccine recipient wishes to have it.
County supervisors said their offices have been inundated with calls from concerned residents, and 179 speakers signed up to make comments to the board at its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday. Most of the comments decried any vaccine verification program, with some incorrectly conflating it with efforts to ban the unvaccinated from events or businesses, and some commentators even making Nazi Germany comparisons.
UpdatedWed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:39 am PT
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Will you need a vaccination verification or passport to travel? To visit Disneyland? A sporting event? Or even a trip to the grocery store? (Shutterstock)
ORANGE COUNTY, CA With so many Orange County residents getting vaccinated, the Orange County Board of Supervisors and Health Care Agency are poised to provide digital proof-of-vaccination codes. But more than 100 residents took their two minutes at the podium Tuesday to decry the idea of putting health records on public display.
Orange County officials reassured the public they would not issue any mandates regarding access to public or private places depending on a resident s vaccine status and added that they re working on a program to provide digital proof of inoculation if a vaccine recipient wishes to have it. That program is a part of the Othena app, the end-to-end vaccination appointment scheduler that the county purchased to manage vaccinating 3.2 million residents.