Airlines urge standards for health credentials

Airlines for America joined labor and travel industry groups in urging the federal government to adopt standards for temporary COVID-19 health credentials that document vaccinations and test results. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can help lead the global discussion, increasing certainty that test results are legitimate, prioritizing passenger privacy, improving operational efficiency for the aviation industry ecosystem, and strengthening protections against importation of the virus,” they said in a letter to Jeffrey Zients, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 response coordinator, asking the administration “to proactively develop a roadmap for the rollout of recommended travel documentations and build a system supporting CHCs that verify both testing and vaccination records.”