Is a Vaccine Card Realistic for COVID-19?
- Famey Lockwood
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: May 25
Is a Vaccine Card Realistic for COVID-19?
Some people liken the discussion of a COVID-19 vaccination card to the “Yellow Card” which is used in some countries to allow for global travel. Is a vaccination card for COVID-19 realistic? Is the precedence and outcome for a COVID-19 vaccination card the same as that for the Yellow Card?
Why they are not the same —
The Yellow Card is a “Certificate of Vaccination and Prophylaxis” against Yellow Fever (in accordance with the WHO).
A COVID-19 Card (proposed) has many differences – scientifically not fully studied, available data is incomplete, mobile populations and migrants data is difficult to measure, and many other differences.
Some comparisons —
Yellow Fever is a vector-borne disease – meaning, it is spread when mosquitoes transmit the virus between humans.
Covid-19 is a communicable disease – meaning, it is directly passed from person to person.
Yellow Fever vs COVID-19 —
Yellow Fever 🟡 “Once vaccinated with a single dose of the yellow fever vaccine, an individual is forever protected from infection and from transmitting yellow fever.”
Covid-19 🌱 has no single source of truth –
based on the pharmaceutical company/ manufacture, a COVID-19 vaccine could be a single dose or multiple doses (boosters proposed).
Yellow Fever 🟡 “The yellow fever vaccine has been in use since the 1930’s, making lifelong clinical assessment possible.”
Covid-19 🌱 vaccine (rapidly developed, manufactured and distributed), does not have the data to support definitively “life-time” immunity.
Yellow Fever 🟡 “Under the WHO’s International Health Regulations, the yellow fever vaccination certificate is now valid for a traveler’s lifetime.”
Covid-19 🌱 Respect is given to the scientific and healthcare communities who have been working, and continue to “work tirelessly”, to care for people and establish control over the COVID-19 virus. However, based on the COVID-19 manufacture, data and human populations, nothing is yet definitive.
→ The effectiveness of the vaccine varies
→ The length of individual immunity varies
→ Individual responsiveness varies
Yellow Fever 🟡 vaccine is administered by a Certified Vaccine Center; approved by the CDC/WHO.
Covid-19 🌱 vaccine is still under emergency use listing at the WHO – further hampering the certification process as well as, disbursement. Administration is governed on many levels with the requirements for licensure and skills determined locally, regionally and by country.
Comentarios