Hi all,
Here at Emory University, we are being asked to explore third-party apps like Bindle for verification of Vaccination or Negative Covid tests. Can you all share what you are doing in this area?
Are you using a third-party app? If so, which one? Do you like it?
Or, do you have someone on sight checking vaccination cards or negative test results? If so, where do they do it, and are they one of your staff members?
Or, do you have more of an honor code, where patrons attest to the fact that they are either vaccinated or will obtain a negative COVID test within (some number of hours) before the event?
Or, something else?
Thank you for your feedback!!
-Kathryn Colegrove
Hi Kathryn,
We do not have a mandate at this time at CU Boulder, but we have discussed it a lot. At this time we have determined that the only reliable way to verify both that a patron is vaccinated is through verification at the doors for the event. The problems with advance digital verification are that there's no recompense in the case of an error with the database, and that there's no way to verify the person who uploaded proof matches the person using the ticket without checking IDs at the door anyway.
It's also very clear to us that to implement we would need to either hire specialized staff to do this verification at the door or contract with a third-party security agency. Our entire campus is struggling with this and all of us (including athletics and performing arts) have stated that we don't have money in our budgets to pay for this, and that some sort of funding from outside our units would be necessary to subsidize this sort of work.