Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that the U.S. government will not require Americans to use vaccine passports to prove they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said the federal government “can be involved in ensuring that things are done fairly and equitably.”
“But I doubt the federal government is going to be the most important element of it,” Fauci told the podcast “Politico Dispatch.”
Fauci said he expects certain businesses and educational institutions to draw up their own vaccination policies.
‘I’m not saying they should or they want to, but I’m saying you could have foreseen how an independent entity would say,’ Well, we can ‘t deal with you unless we know you’ve been vaccinated. “But it will not be instructed by the federal government,” he said.
Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, also previously said that the government in Biden is only giving guidance to the private sector on the development of the so-called passports.
‘The government does not consider its role as the place to create a passport, nor the place to preserve the data of the citizens. We see this as something that the private sector does, and we will do what is important to us, ‘he said in a press release.
‘And we are currently leading an interagency process to go through these details and that some important criteria are met. Nr. 1 that there is fair access. It means whether people have access to technology or not, or not, ‘he added.