9 year-old Josie Murdoch holds her vaccination card at Chapel Hill Pediatrics and Adolescents after being innoculated with the Pfizer baby COVID-19 vaccination in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.
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9 year-old Josie Murdoch holds her vaccination card at Chapel Hill Pediatrics and Adolescents after being innoculated with the Pfizer baby COVID-19 vaccination in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.
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The CDC will not be issuing COVID-19 vaccination playing cards, the company mentioned in steerage up to date on Wednesday.
It’ll additionally not be preserving data of individuals’s vaccinations, as there isn’t any nationwide vaccine registry.
People can obtain a digital or paper copy of their full vaccination data, together with these for COVID-19, by contacting their state well being division’s immunization data system. Immunization suppliers additionally retain these data.
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, many locations, reminiscent of leisure venues, eating places and employers started requiring folks to indicate their vaccination playing cards to realize entry or be employed.
The CDC issued 980 million of the playing cards between 2020 and Could 2023, in response to the Related Press.
The Justice Division has warned the general public that making pretend copies of the playing cards is prohibited and punishable underneath federal legislation.
Native prosecutors started cracking down on folks making pretend, clean copies of the playing cards. In a single case, a California man was arrested and charged with identification theft, forging authorities paperwork and falsifying medical data.
In one other, a New Jersey lady was charged with providing a false instrument, prison possession of a cast instrument and conspiracy for allegedly promoting pretend COVID-19 vaccination playing cards on Instagram.
A former CVS worker in New York was caught with COVID-19 vaccination playing cards that he supposed to present household and associates. New York lawmakers then made it a felony to forge or have pretend immunization data.
