Companies Join Push for COVID-19 ‘Vaccination Credential’

Mexico's Undersecretary of Health, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Mexico City on Dec. 24, 2020. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

A coalition of companies is pushing for a credential that would identify people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine.

Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce are among the businesses that are part of a group that announced on Jan. 14 that they’re working on the new project.