https://www.today.com/tmrw/ticketmas...accine-t198908
Ticket Master wants you to provide evidence of taking the vaccine or show that you've been tested, before you can attend any future live events. Since the news broke, they've backpedaled and claimed it's just an "option" they're considering, and it would be up the event organizer.
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However, the company is looking at how it can use technology as a tool to prevent concerts from turning into virus superspreader events. That plan could include asking ticket holders to share whether they've been vaccinated or have tested negative for the virus within a certain window of time, dependent on local rules, according to a Billboard report.
"We’re already seeing many third-party health care providers prepare to handle the vetting — whether that is getting a vaccine, taking a test, or other methods of review and approval — which could then be linked via a digital ticket so everyone entering the event is verified," Mark Yovich, president of Ticketmaster,
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From the linked article:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/b...concerts-plan/
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Here's how it would work, if approved: After purchasing a ticket for a concert, fans would need to verify that they have already been vaccinated (which would provide approximately one year of COVID-19 protection) or test negative for coronavirus approximately 24 to 72 hours prior to the concert. The length of coverage a test would provide would be governed by regional health authorities -- if attendees of a Friday night concert had to be tested 48 hours in advance, most could start the testing process the day before the event. If it was a 24-hour window, most people would likely be tested the same day of the event at a lab or a health clinic.
Once the test was complete, the fan would instruct the lab to deliver the results to their health pass company, like CLEAR or IBM. If the tests were negative, or the fan was vaccinated, the health pass company would verify the attendee's COVID-19 status to Ticketmaster, which would then issue the fan the credentials needed to access the event. If a fan tested positive or didn't take a test to verify their status, they would not be granted access to the event. There are still many details to work out, but the goal of the program is for fans to take care of vaccines and testing prior to the concert and not show up hoping to be tested onsite.
Ticketmaster would not store or have access to fans' medical records and would only receive verification of whether a fan is cleared to attend an event on a given date.
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The thing is, you could go in for a C19 test, and be infected minutes later by interacting with someone who has it, so what good does testing do? None. We actually had a customer Thursday who cancelled an on-site visit because he was "deathly afraid of catching Covid" (his words), and wouldn't let us come out until we were tested first. People put far too much faith in medicine and "science".