Citing the Yellow Card as precedent for Covid-19 travel passes that exempt those with proof of vaccination from testing and quarantine mandates when crossing certain borders is an erroneous policy assumption that could prolong the pandemic and imperil global health.

Now, with limited distribution of vaccines with varying degrees of efficacy there is renewed interest in immunity passports; more accurately described as vaccination certificates. What remains to be determined is who may use this documentation for what purpose.

Principal Investigators: Gregory Kaebnick, Michael Gusmano Co-Investigators: Karen Maschke, Carolyn Neuhaus, Mildred Solomon Funder: National Science Foundation Initiatives are being developed to use gene editing technologies to modify populations of...

Natalie Kofler, a postdoctoral research scientist at Yale University, visited The Hastings Center earlier this summer to explore the ethical questions surrounding the use of gene editing technologies in the...