Biden White House rules out federal vaccine passport mandate or database

The Biden administration insisted on Tuesday that the federal government will not be supporting any initiative to require credentials to prove a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status or a database to keep track of inoculations.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated comments she made at her March 29 press briefing, in which she said that the administration would not push for the use of what have colloquially been referred to as “vaccine passports.”

“Let me be very clear on this. I know there's been lots of questions,” Psaki said during the Tuesday briefing. “The government is not now, nor will we be, supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential.”