9 year-old Josie Murdoch holds her vaccination card at Chapel Hill Pediatrics and Adolescents after being innoculated with the Pfizer little one 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 little one COVID-19 vaccination in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.
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The CDC will now not be issuing COVID-19 vaccination playing cards, the company stated in steering up to date on Wednesday.
It may even not be retaining data of individuals’s vaccinations, as there isn’t any nationwide vaccine registry.
Individuals 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.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many locations, akin to leisure venues, eating places and employers started requiring individuals to point out their vaccination playing cards to achieve entry or be employed.
The CDC issued 980 million of the playing cards between 2020 and May 2023, in keeping with the Associated Press.
The Justice Department has warned the general public that making pretend copies of the playing cards is prohibited and punishable underneath federal legislation.
Local prosecutors started cracking down on individuals making pretend, clean copies of the playing cards. In one case, a California man was arrested and charged with id theft, forging authorities paperwork and falsifying medical data.
In one other, a New Jersey lady was charged with providing a false instrument, felony 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 provide household and pals. New York lawmakers then made it a felony to forge or have pretend immunization data.