Canadian Entry with Vaccine?
They let my dog in with vax for rabies. Think they will let me in with a properly filled out "yellow card" in my passport for covid?
Forum Discussion
Such a requirement will likely be very slow to be rolled out. First and foremost it will be politically problematic for a government to offer such a service if it isn't available to the general public. Imagine the uproar if certain groups get the freedom to travel because they are in a class of risk that gets the first doses of vaccine while others are down the list.
Second, any such vaccine card would likely have to be standardized, registered or certified in some way, otherwise people would just print out fake forms off the internet (see service dog vests and the like). That would be yet another wave of bureaucratic red tape that would need to be created, implemented and rolled out across the borders. Much easier said than done.
Should an instant test for antibodies be developed, I could see that as being a more likely candidate as a requirement to cross borders or board airlines. But the most likely candidate of all is in a year COIVID will have been knocked down to a background level in severity (due to advances in treatment), the spread will become much less widespread due to vaccines, acquired immunity and a general change in behaviors (a lot of people just plain get used to not congregating in confined spaces and that doesn't change when COVID fades away). Then COVID will just be another disease you might get and governments and politicians will no longer care if you cross their border while infectious.
Second, any such vaccine card would likely have to be standardized, registered or certified in some way, otherwise people would just print out fake forms off the internet (see service dog vests and the like). That would be yet another wave of bureaucratic red tape that would need to be created, implemented and rolled out across the borders. Much easier said than done.
Should an instant test for antibodies be developed, I could see that as being a more likely candidate as a requirement to cross borders or board airlines. But the most likely candidate of all is in a year COIVID will have been knocked down to a background level in severity (due to advances in treatment), the spread will become much less widespread due to vaccines, acquired immunity and a general change in behaviors (a lot of people just plain get used to not congregating in confined spaces and that doesn't change when COVID fades away). Then COVID will just be another disease you might get and governments and politicians will no longer care if you cross their border while infectious.
