PORTLAND — Oregon is working on an electronic vaccine verification tool that residents could use to share their COVID-19 vaccination status with businesses that ask for proof of verification.
The Oregon Health Authority said the tool would be optional and people could volunteer to opt-in, KGW-TV reported.
Oregon is testing a model of the tool with “communities disproportionally impacted by COVID-19,” health officials said.
The goal is to make it available to anyone in Oregon in the spring 2022.
Oregon does not require businesses to ask for customers’ proof of COVID-19 vaccination, but many Portland restaurants and bars and places such as the Rose Quarter — which includes the Moda Center where the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team plays — have established their own requirements.