Back in June I wrote about the Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN), a post-COVID way to digitally exchange information about a person’s vaccination status—not just for COVID, but for any future pandemic.
This effort is being pioneered by WHO.
But as we continue to advance digital health identities, the United States is no longer producing a well-known physical identity document.
It’s the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19 vaccination cards are being phased out.
Now that COVID-19 vaccines are not being distributed by the federal government, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped printing new cards.
From https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccine-cdc-medical-record-a70eb7f3f32b961eae1a7bf69175ad11
This doesn’t affect the validity of current cards. It just means that if you get a COVID vaccine, or any future vaccine, and you need to prove you obtained it, you will have to contact the medical facility who administered it.
Or, in selected states (because in the U.S. health is generally a state and not a federal responsibility), you can access the state’s digital health information. For example, the state of Washington offers MyIRmobile, as do the states of Arizona, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Dakota, and West Virginia.
Sign up for MyIR Mobile by going to myirmobile.com and follow the registration instructions. Your registration information will be used to match your records with the state immunization registry. You will be sent a verification code on your phone to finalize the process. Once registration is complete, you’ll be able to view your immunization records, Certificate of Immunization Status (CIS) and access your COVID-19 vaccination certificate.
From https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/immunization/access-your-familys-immunization-information
I have no idea if MyIR Mobile conforms to GDHCN; neither the phrase nor the acronym is mentioned on the MyIR Mobile website.
My own state of California has its own digital vaccine record, but frankly it’s kind of clunky. Again, I don’t know if California conforms to GDHCN.
So maybe digital health certifications are not advancing.
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