COVID-19 test results are already required for entry at some airports and at international borders, and it’s likely that confirmation of getting a COVID-19 vaccine will soon follow.

But most patients who have been vaccinated against the virus only get a small piece of paper as proof.

Those papers are easy to lose and highly vulnerable to fraud and counterfeiting, industry stakeholders say. So public and private organizations have turned to the idea of developing digital health passports to help restart global travel.

But, there’s a catch there too, experts say. Without agreed-upon standards, different digital health passes risk creating a fragmented system that will only slow down efforts to bring travel back safely.

“You might show up at the airport trying to prove your recent COVID test result or vaccination certificate, and you pull up an app that is not recognized, and now you’re scrambling to figure out how to get on the plane,” said Dakota Gruener, executive director of ID2020, an organization which advocates for digital IDs.

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