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What is a COVID-19 vaccine card, and do you need to keep it? - Salon
Jan 17, 2021 1 min, 15 secs
You've seen them on social media: healthcare workers posing with a small index-sized card indicating that they have received their COVID-19 vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains on its website that after the first inoculation, the vaccinated will receive either a card or printout telling them which coronavirus vaccine they received.

This distinction is a major reason why the COVID-19 vaccine card is important, in that it tells you — and perhaps your doctor or nurse — when you're due for your second dose.

"The vaccination card is a piece of paper that just says, for example, you got the Pfizer vaccine, this is the lot number, this is a date you got it, and this is the date you get your second dose," said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

Adalja noted that after you receive any vaccination, you always receive a printout or a card.

Technically, the card is a second form of documentation for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

"That being said, I would say, obviously to any patient who is going back for a second dose to call the provider and say, 'I'm coming back to get my second dose, but I lost my card.'".

Yet in the future, it could be used for travel if you're traveling somewhere that requires a COVID-19 vaccination.

"For international travel it might be something, but it's probably going to be a different type of card," Adalja said.

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