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The Economist: Are vaccine passports a good idea?

By The Economist.

Published March 13, 2021 at 1:23 am

A picture shows a label with the vaccination certificate of a hospital staff member after her vaccination into the left upper arm (li.OA.) with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at the corona vaccination centre at the University hospital in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on January 22, 2021. (Photo by Ronny Hartmann / AFP)

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On March 7th, after six months of selling takeaways, the beer was once more flowing in the pizzeria at Bet Romano in Tel Aviv. The bar and restaurant upstairs were packed. Most patrons carried proof that they had received a double dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, but no one asked to see it.