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Review
. 2024 Feb 13:12:1347623.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1347623. eCollection 2024.

Epidemiological contemplation for a currently pragmatic COVID-19 health passport: a perspective

Radha Ambalavanan  1 , R Sterling Snead  1 , Julia Marczika  1 , Alex Malioukis  1
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Epidemiological contemplation for a currently pragmatic COVID-19 health passport: a perspective

Radha Ambalavanan et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a global pandemic that has wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people around the world. Confinement measures aim to reduce the epidemic's spread and minimize the burden of morbidity and mortality. In response to the challenges caused by the pandemic, digital health passports have been developed exponentially. We highlight the latent epidemiological barriers to health passports to achieve standardized digital care platforms. This review paper not only highlights the epidemiological barriers but also articulates the possible infrastructure required to make the International Standard for a multi-factor authenticated and validated health passport.

Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 status certification; SARS-CoV-2; digital health passport; epidemiological challenges; health certification; health passport.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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NPI Strategies for Prevention and Mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission.
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