Conversations about vaccine passports aren’t going anyway anytime soon. The matter of vaccine passports has quickly become an issue with strong ties to politics.
Just as Democrats supported business closures, stay-at-home orders, gathering restrictions, and other COVID edicts, they are in favor of vaccine passports as well. In states like New York and Hawaii, vaccine passport programs are already being implemented.
Republican-led states, on the other hand, have employed measures to bar the use of vaccine passports. At the congressional level, GOP lawmakers, such as Sen. Ted Cruz, are advancing legislation such as the No Vaccine Passports Act to shield the privacy of Americans’ medical information.
Earlier this week, Republican Sen. Rick Scott introduced a bill to protect domestic travel from vaccine passport requirements.
Reviewing the Freedom to Fly Act
On Tuesday, Sen. Scott explained that the Freedom to Fly Act is about protecting the privacy of Americans’ medical information. As such, the GOP lawmaker’s bill would bar the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from mandating that Americans show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to travel domestically.
