Millions of adults vaccinated against Covid-19 have little to prove it beyond a paper card they received at inoculation sites.
The U.S. has no central database for immunizations. States maintain an incomplete patchwork of records. Nor is there standard proof of Covid-19 vaccinations like the yellow-fever cards that are required for travel to many countries where that disease remains prevalent. With some countries and businesses preparing to make digital proof of vaccination a requirement for entry and travel, the paper cards may be the only ticket to access those platforms. Proof is already being requested on some first dates and at weddings.
“I’m glad we prioritized getting shots in arms,” said Ami Parekh, chief medical officer at digital healthcare company Grand Rounds Inc., which acts as a kind of medical concierge for patients. “But putting in rules about being vaccinated without giving people a way to properly track it is a little bit backwards.”
The cards themselves are a patchwork of formats. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designed a version, which many locations use, but it isn’t required. State and local authorities and even individual sites are devising their own cards to hand out. With no official standard, it may be hard to say what constitutes proof.
I just want to get back to some normal life. If everyone who wants the vaccine gets it, then I really don't care what happens to those who chose not to. They can get sick and die, that is their decision. I do feel bad for the nurses and doctors who have to continue treating.
How can we get vaccinated if it's suspended?
A person is either vaccinated, has recovered from COVID or has no immunity and vulnerable. If the vast majority of the population is vaccinated, what is the point of DISCRIMINATING against the vulnerable? AND why a 'digital' pass which is updated and monitored by a central auth.
I've been vaccinated but will not carry or show a card or prove so to any corporation. They can do without my business.
Allow me to introduce you to the magical world of digital photography where you take a picture of the card on your phone and save it in your notes under PROOF OF VACCINATION.
There's no need to display date of birth on these cards or the ExcelsiorPass with Q-code.
Vaccination does not equal to Immunity, if we assume that each one of us takes a Vaccine and the type we could out of 100 Inoculated only 90 be immune *Don’t know How Long* 10 left not immune, Inoculations doesn‘t stop people contaminating others. Inoculation Passports Useless
What about those of us that have already had Covid. Would it be OK with the govt. if we skipped out on the vaccine?
India both, Voting as well as getting Covid Vaccination is fully digitized. Covid-19 destroyed the so called first world myth.
Google Authenticator App should help scan it and verify authenticity. Is there a control number? Or a number identifier?
Everyone who got completely Vaccinated, must SAVE and Laminate your Vaccine Card, it is an important piece of document just like your Passport or Driver's License.
Ahh 😦 Really Why is The USA 🇺🇸 With all of it’s Technology not linked in to A Digital Record. An Apple IPHONE 📲. A joint-Venture with Micro= Soft- Technology. Team up ⬆️ Both Tech Com. Who wants-to depend on Their CVS-Card-Trav,World.
Etsy shops transitioning from homemade masks to vaccination cards.
Stop normalizing this authoritarian bs, do you damn jobs as journalists and ask the right questions
Some countries will become most countries despite what America thinks is an infringement upon our rights. America doesn't control the world view on vaccinations. We can object to the 'vaccine passports' all we want but if you travel and your destination requires it you comply.
I'll just get a counterfeit. Shit is tyrannical.
What else may these cards become a passport for? Voting perhaps?
If you still have grownup people with no ID in the 21st century how can you demand to have vaccination passport cards?
The fun part is gonna be watching white American anti-vaxxers flexing white privilege to get an exemption/work-around. 🤣
If ya idiots let this happen then ya deserve everything that’s coming your way. Benjamin Franklin 🤣😭😂😂🖕🏽FactsMatter Freedom fuckthevaccine freethinker Libertarians VaccinePassport fuckthevaccinepassport
This is fucked up
Every Citizen should have secure ID. include vaccine US Gov so lamb PaLegis SenateFloor HouseFloor SenMastriano JohnJoyceForPA media fox43 trish_regan CBS21NEWS abc27FranklinCo
🌎is right in requiring proof of vaccination; mils have died, economies r in ruin. Covid must be wiped out and the vaccine is the only way. Remember that very young children probably will remain at risk until 2022 be4 vaccine protocols can be developed. No vaccination, no service
Well i guess im locked out of the economy. I will post a medical inquiry.
You best believe I made copies of mine then emailed them to myself and my folks.
The COVID-19 virus was released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. It’s okay to say that.
Snap a photo for the phone.
How long it will be valid ? 're new every 6 months ?
Not true. Also recorded on V-Safe.
I don’t see how the paper cards matter when it’s being entered electronically into a national database.
Can we laminate our cards?!
thanks
too easy to fake these cards.
Doesn't A.D.A. ban discrimination based on medical conditions, even to customers of most businesses, which must make reasonable accommodations?
Only liars will not be behind this. They don't follow health orders. They won't vaccinate. A non counterfeit version will be better. The idiots will still spread covid. So this is the only way to ostracize and isolate the stupid. Peeps saying Nazi, don't know about the Nazi's.
Digital proof of vaccination needs to be linked to passports for international travel to resume, leads to immigration quagmire, fix the problem will generate revenues with fines, streamline the process JoeBiden VP LeaderMcConnell SenSchumer
Great, so if you lost the card that someone scribbled on, you can’t leave the country or do many things here. Seems reasonable!
Best of luck with HIPPA violations and discrimination charges (domestically speaking)
Seems like that's such an easy thing to forge. I remember thinking after I got my first shot, how does anyone know if this piece of paper actually represents a real shot?