In this early draft, we describe a user-centric, card-based system for vaccine distribution. Our system makes use of digitally signed QR codes and their use for phased vaccine distribution, vaccine administration/record-keeping, immunization verification, and follow-up symptom reporting. Furthermore, we propose and describe a complementary scanner app system to be used by vaccination clinics, public health officials, and immunization verification parties to effectively utilize card-based framework. We believe that the proposed system provides a privacy-preserving and efficient framework for vaccine distribution in both developed and developing regions.
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@article{arxiv.2101.07931,
title = {MIT SafePaths Card (MiSaCa): Augmenting Paper Based Vaccination Cards with Printed Codes},
author = {Joseph Bae and Rohan Sukumaran and Sheshank Shankar and Saurish Srivastava and Rohan Iyer and Aryan Mahindra and Qamil Mirza and Maurizio Arseni and Anshuman Sharma and Saras Agrawal and Orna Mukhopadhyay and Colin Kang and Priyanshi Katiyar and Apurv Shekhar and Sifat Hasan and Krishnendu Dasgupta and Darshan Gandhi and Sethuramen TV and Parth Patwa and Ishaan Singh and Abhishek Singh and Ramesh Raskar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07931},
year = {2021}
}