9 year-old Josie Murdoch holds her vaccination card at Chapel Hill Pediatrics and Adolescents after being innoculated with the Pfizer baby 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 baby 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 updated on Wednesday.

It may even not be conserving data of individuals’s vaccinations, as there isn’t a 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 information system. Immunization suppliers additionally retain these data.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many locations, resembling leisure venues, eating places and employers started requiring individuals to point out their vaccination playing cards to realize entry or be employed.

The CDC issued 980 million of the playing cards between 2020 and May 2023, in line with the Associated Press.

The Justice Department has warned the public that making pretend copies of the playing cards is unlawful 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 identification theft, forging authorities paperwork and falsifying medical data.

In one other, a New Jersey woman was charged with providing a false instrument, felony possession of a solid instrument and conspiracy for allegedly promoting pretend COVID-19 vaccination playing cards on Instagram.

A former CVS employee in New York was caught with COVID-19 vaccination playing cards that he meant to offer household and associates. New York lawmakers then made it a felony to forge or have pretend immunization data.