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You don't use a certificate (QR code) in the US?

ocdtrekkie 5y ago
Nope, and the way they fill out the card can vary widely from retailer to clinic. My CDC card has stickers for my doses, but handwriting that is barely legible is a very common way for providers to fill out the card.
alistairSH 5y ago
Yes and no. The CDC offers a heavy paper card for recording vaccination status. This is the source of truth, as far as I can figure. Larger medical providers also offer records in digital format that can be loaded into Apple Wallet (and similar) and generate a QR code for ease of use.
cmurf 5y ago
Nope. And I was instructed by the (private/for-profit) provider who administered the injection, to fill it out myself, my name and dates. They either hand wrote or stamped the brand and lot of vaccination and the initials for the provider (the business itself). Pretty weird, and certainly not certified, authenticated, verifiable. In fact the provider submitted the wrong dates for both of my vaccinations, which are the dates my state has on file, officially. Something approximating official, is my state's smartphone app, which provides an in-state legally recognized digital driver's license and a variant of the CDC vaccination card (no handwriting, not a copy of my paper one, but using an overlay of text based on the information received form the provider). But this app is recently rendered non-functional on Android (and even when the app worked, it required an internet connection to produce either record, no offline storage and no screenshot allowed when the app is in the foreground, unlike the iOS version of the app). So hilariously, the closest "certified" copy by virtue of it being generated by my state from their app which has legal sanction, has the wrong dates and I also can't access it anymore anyway. Most places in the U.S. that request it (concert venues so far the only place I've been asked to produce it) have said they will accept photos of the original in lieu of the paper copy. It is only due to the weak standards of those asking to see a copy, that this isn't a bigger problem than it sounds. Which then renders the paradigm sort of an exercise im merely following instructions more than it ensures folks aren't attending some kind of COVID party.

Nope, and the way they fill out the card can vary widely from retailer to clinic. My CDC card has stickers for my doses, but handwriting that is barely legible is a very common way for providers to fill out the card.

alistairSH 5y ago

Yes and no. The CDC offers a heavy paper card for recording vaccination status. This is the source of truth, as far as I can figure. Larger medical providers also offer records in digital format that can be loaded into Apple Wallet (and similar) and generate a QR code for ease of use.

cmurf 5y ago

Nope. And I was instructed by the (private/for-profit) provider who administered the injection, to fill it out myself, my name and dates. They either hand wrote or stamped the brand and lot of vaccination and the initials for the provider (the business itself). Pretty weird, and certainly not certified, authenticated, verifiable. In fact the provider submitted the wrong dates for both of my vaccinations, which are the dates my state has on file, officially. Something approximating official, is my state's smartphone app, which provides an in-state legally recognized digital driver's license and a variant of the CDC vaccination card (no handwriting, not a copy of my paper one, but using an overlay of text based on the information received form the provider). But this app is recently rendered non-functional on Android (and even when the app worked, it required an internet connection to produce either record, no offline storage and no screenshot allowed when the app is in the foreground, unlike the iOS version of the app). So hilariously, the closest "certified" copy by virtue of it being generated by my state from their app which has legal sanction, has the wrong dates and I also can't access it anymore anyway. Most places in the U.S. that request it (concert venues so far the only place I've been asked to produce it) have said they will accept photos of the original in lieu of the paper copy. It is only due to the weak standards of those asking to see a copy, that this isn't a bigger problem than it sounds. Which then renders the paradigm sort of an exercise im merely following instructions more than it ensures folks aren't attending some kind of COVID party.