The CDC's white COVID vaccination cards were once a ticket to resuming in-person activities. But should people still hang on to them?
Korin Miller is a health and lifestyle journalist who has been published in The Washington Post, Prevention, SELF, Women's Health, The Bump, and Yahoo, among other outlets.Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content.The CDC said it will no longer distribute COVID vaccination cards, which were once a ticket to resuming in-person activities in 2021 and early 2022.
The agency shared the information online Wednesday via an updated version of their FAQs page on COVID vaccines. COVID vaccines were once distributed through the federal government, but are now sold directly through manufacturers. The government is no longer printing the white cards as a result, a CDC spokesperson said.. “This is also the first updated vaccine, and the CDC is trying to get people to think about it as part of their routine fall immunization.”
Beyond logistics, some people may want to keep their old COVID vaccination card as a sort of relic of pandemic life. The newly-updated COVID vaccines are available for anyone regardless of their COVID vaccine history—so whatever is on a person’s card doesn’t matter. Even if people don’t have a vaccination card to be updated at their next vaccine appointment, the pharmacy should still provide information and a record of their latest COVID shot.
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