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@dsarkar
Just one little thing about the picture (should it be published anywhere), isn't the screen flow this way?:
@Ein-Tim Yes indeed, thanks. Using now your image to show the flow in the OP.
One more question: Why do Johnson & Johnson vaccinated people who recovered from COVID still have to wait 14 days? What's the legal basis for this?
@Ein-Tim
Why do Johnson & Johnson vaccinated people who recovered from COVID still have to wait 14 days? What's the legal basis for this?
The RKI FAQ COVID-19 und Impfen: Antworten auf häufig gestellte Fragen (FAQ) Gesamtstand: 27.8.2021 answers the question: "Wer gilt laut rechtlichen Verordnungen als vollständig geimpft bzw. genesen?"
That FAQ does not include the exception below regarding J & J.
Sofortige Impfstatusanzeige für Genesene: Für Genesene wird ab jetzt direkt nach der ersten Impfung der vollständige Impfschutz in der Corona-Warn-App angezeigt. Die zweiwöchige Wartezeit entfällt bei allen Impfstoffen außer bei Johnson & Johnson.
It may be just a practical problem. Johnson & Johnson is a 1/1 vaccination, so anybody who received that without previously being recovered will have to wait 14 days. But how do you distinguish a Johnson & Johnson 1/1 vaccination certificate issued for a person who was not previously infected compared to a certificate issued for a person who was infected?
In the case of vaccinations which are normally only complete with 2/2, the inference of a 1/1 for instance with AstraZeneca is that it must be for a recovered person.
Maybe @vaubaehn could cross-check that since he is much more familiar with the status and developments of the DCC schema on https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/ehn-dcc-schema?
It may be just a practical problem. Johnson & Johnson is a 1/1 vaccination, so anybody who received that without previously being recovered will have to wait 14 days. But how do you distinguish a Johnson & Johnson 1/1 vaccination certificate issued for a person who was not previously infected compared to a certificate issued for a person who was infected?
In the case of vaccinations which are normally only complete with 2/2, the inference of a 1/1 for instance with AstraZeneca is that it must be for a recovered person.
Yes, this must be the answer to my question. There is no way to differentiate between normally vaccinated people with 1/1 or recovered people with 1/1. Thanks Mike!
Hi @MikeMcC399 and @Ein-Tim , sorry for the late response - I somehow lost your ping, and @dsarkar 's closing of this issue was the wake-up call.
Why do Johnson & Johnson vaccinated people who recovered from COVID still have to wait 14 days? What's the legal basis for this?
The RKI FAQ COVID-19 und Impfen: Antworten auf häufig gestellte Fragen (FAQ) Gesamtstand: 27.8.2021 answers the question: "Wer gilt laut rechtlichen Verordnungen als vollständig geimpft bzw. genesen?"
That FAQ does not include the exception below regarding J & J.
It may be just a practical problem. Johnson & Johnson is a 1/1 vaccination, so anybody who received that without previously being recovered will have to wait 14 days. But how do you distinguish a Johnson & Johnson 1/1 vaccination certificate issued for a person who was not previously infected compared to a certificate issued for a person who was infected?
In the case of vaccinations which are normally only complete with 2/2, the inference of a 1/1 for instance with AstraZeneca is that it must be for a recovered person.
Maybe @vaubaehn could cross-check that since he is much more familiar with the status and developments of the DCC schema on https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/ehn-dcc-schema?
Actually, the idea to solve the technical problem to distinguish vaccinations from non-infected persons and recovered persons by just looking to/reading out the vaccination certificate and to rely on the total series of doses, is great imho. But I think, we would run into a legal problem then: it would be discrimination of people who received Johnson&Johnson after recovery just for technical means. Indeed, it's not possible to conclude about the recovery status, when solely looking to the vaccination certificate due to restrictions in the current eHN DCC schema ("only one event allowed" per DCC). You would need the combination of both certificates, vaccination and recovery, to evaluate the effective validity of immunization status. However, CWA will check the booster validity also for recovered persons from v2.10 on (see https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/pull/4001): CWA will assemble a kind of artificial DCC and submit it to the CertLogic engine, and the engine will be fed with special crafted "booster rules", that will only be available in/for Germany for now. By this, the separation of certificates can be circumvented. Unfortunately, the design of the eHN DCC will not support business rules validation in a similar way currently. To make it possible, all wallet apps in EU and elsewhere would need to be adapted to use a similar approach like CWA will do. For verifier apps it would even get more complicated, as they would need to scan 2 QR codes serially, but just in some cases, which would mean more effort for gate keeper and user during the control.
This is why I think, that the exception for Johnson&Johnson has other reasons. Probably there is not enough scientific evidence yet (finished studies) that Johnson&Johnson is able to protect recovered persons after one single shot in a similar degree (immediately) like the other vaccines. I made a fast search on secondary sources, but couldn't find anything useful in this subject. I didn't look into primary sources so far.
By the way, EU countries handle Johnson and Johnson differently, too, when validating business rules:
@vaubaehn My guess about the reason is confirmed in the blog https://www.coronawarn.app/en/blog/2021-09-08-cwa-version-2-9/
"Users who get vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine after recovery are an exception. Since only one shot is required for this vaccine, the Corona-Warn-App cannot distinguish between those who have recovered and got vaccinated and those who have been vaccinated normally. In these cases, it always displays full vaccination status after 14 days."
I'm afraid that your other points will be lost here. You would need to post elsewhere if you are requesting any change.
@MikeMcC399 @vaubaehn @Ein-Tim
It is a technical problem: The actual JSON scheme makes it impossible to differentiate the case "Recovered and 1/1 &J vaccinated" not only for a the CWA but also for the verifier apps. Scanning both certificates would not help in the current implementation, since the vaccination certificate will be shown as invalid in the first 14 days due to the business rules. The current scheme simply cannot map the case properly.
@dsarkar @MikeMcC399 @Ein-Tim Thanks for your replies, and confirming the technical issue. But from all I understood, the problem will/could be circumvented with CWA 2.10, where the technical solution was implemented with rather much effort: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/pull/4001 I hope this 2-step approach (2.9: vaccination for recovered except Johnson&Johnson; 2.10: Johnson&Johnson after recovery could be detected) won't get a nightmare for support teams, due to users complaining about that "discrimination"...
All the best!
(@MikeMcC399 I won't invest any more energy into the subject for now, so I won't request any changes 😉 )
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The actual JSON scheme makes it impossible to differentiate the case "Recovered and 1/1 &J vaccinated" not only for a the CWA but also for the verifier apps. Scanning both certificates would not help in the current implementation, since the vaccination certificate will be shown as invalid in the first 14 days due to the business rules. The current scheme simply cannot map the case properly.
I got it now. Even CWA could detect recovery + Johnson&Johnson 1/1, it will not do it, because of the verifier apps...
@vaubaehn
I got it now. Even CWA could detect recovery + Johnson&Johnson 1/1, it will not do it, because of the verifier apps...
I think that is crucial point: Only one certificate is verified.
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