Will there be counterfeit COVID vaccination certificates?

[Lemon Drop]

There is a vaccine certificate pdf in your CDC VAMS account. It includes a unique identifier number for each recipient, issued by the CDC.

I'd guess that will be the required doc if you have to prove you are vaccinated.

[btfc]

Always have a Plan B.


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[rgG]

Lemon Drop wrote:
There is a vaccine certificate pdf in your CDC VAMS account. It includes a unique identifier number for each recipient, issued by the CDC.

I'd guess that will be the required doc if you have to prove you are vaccinated.

I did not know that. I need to look and see if I can find mine.

Edit: I found it. I took a screen shot and saved it to my photos. Since I entered all the info they have though, I don’t see how it really proves much. I suspect anyone could set up an account.
Since the health department did take our IDs this last time, they didn’t the first, I think there should be something official mailed out later.
I wonder if that will happen.

This is the website where you enter your symptoms and health check each day, right?

Edit: no, that looks like a different website. I don’t know if our health department uses that system or not. Maybe they do and they will send us something.

[RgrF]

Lemon Drop wrote:
There is a vaccine certificate pdf in your CDC VAMS account. It includes a unique identifier number for each recipient, issued by the CDC.

I'd guess that will be the required doc if you have to prove you are vaccinated.

Looks like you would have to have been registered through them initially to get any info. Website offers no way to register.

[Lemon Drop]

You have to be sent a link to the VAMS site by the vaccine provider or by an employer if you work in healthcare, in order to register. I thought everybody was doing it that way. That's how I scheduled my appointments.

I would screenshot my certificate but it has my full name and DOB, LOL. It also has the batch number and origin of the vaccine you were administered.

[rgG]

Lemon Drop wrote:
You have to be sent a link to the VAMS site by the vaccine provider or by an employer if you work in healthcare, in order to register. I thought everybody was doing it that way. That's how I scheduled my appointments.

I would screenshot my certificate but it has my full name and DOB, LOL. It also has the batch number and origin of the vaccine you were administered.

Yeah, I don't think the Health Department we went to is using that system. When I was searching around trying to find a place to get a shot, There were many different sign up systems and none of them looked like the VAMS site. I wonder why they didn't use it, but who knows. Maybe I should email Brian Kemp and ask. :RollingEyesSmiley5:
On my husband's card there is a little sticker with all the vaccine info, manufacturer, batch, date, etc., but mine is written in by hand, since I was scheduled for a day later, but they let me get mine a day early, so mine looks even less "official." Lol

Edit: I just looked at my card. I have an official sticker for the second shot and the write in for the first. Lol
Also, there is a place for "patient number" and it is blank on both our cards. That's probably where the VAMS number would have gone, I am guessing.

[fauch]

I will certainly buy one as soon as it is available!!! I'm sure it will even be possible to get some disreputable health care workers to issue GENUINE "Fake" certificates which will be completely legitimate, like "the guy" we used to have in the DMV when I was in High School that got us genuine State IDs for 100 bucks that even the Police didn't know were fake.

The free market will provide, it always does.