The Atlantic
Vaccine passports, explained
April 1, 2021
Vaccine passports are almost certainly in our near future. But what are they exactly? And with concerns about vaccine equity now complicated by partisan fear mongering, how should they be implemented?
Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist with NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine who’s spent years thinking about vaccine ethics, joins James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins on the podcast
Social Distance to explain. Listen to their conversation here:
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What follows is a transcript of the episode, edited and condensed for clarity:
James Hamblin: Is there a concise way to just kind of paraphrase what the idea is of a vaccine passport?