This is a guest opinion post from Alex Walz, Director of Marketing at self sovereign identity firm Evernym.
It’s a sobering reality, but one we all have to face: Short of an unprecedented miracle, a coronavirus vaccine will not be widely available until mid-to-late 2021, if not later. Most vaccines take years or even decades to hit the market. Without a vaccine, a full return to normalcy is simply not in the cards.
At the same time, quarantine and self-isolation cannot continue indefinitely. In the near-term, countries around the world have begun looking toward “immunity passports” as a way of reestablishing some degree of normality. These documents would be given to individuals who show immunity to, or have recently tested negative for, the coronavirus, allowing them to enter workplaces and public buildings and return to their daily activities, with perhaps some limits in place.
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