Salon | May 2, 2021
“Vaccine passports will probably be very important and useful as a transition,” Lawrence Gostin, a professor at Georgetown Law who specializes in public health law, told Salon. “Once everybody is fully vaccinated and we have herd immunity, there’ll be no need for a vaccine passport, but what vaccine passports do is get us back to a state of more normal quicker because it means that you have to show proof that you’re vaccinated in order to get into high risk environments.”