Coronavirus FAQs: What Should I Do With My Vaccine Card? Is Choir Practice OK Now?

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I've just had my second dose of the vaccine and now I have a "vaccine card." Um, what do I do with it?

That's a good question. The U.S. version bears this instruction: "Bring this vaccine record to every vaccination or medical visit."

In essence, it's proof that you've gotten the jab (or jabs for the two-dose options).

Beyond that? Yes, there are questions about what purposes it can serve — and how to safeguard it.

In the U.S., the card is a 3 inch by 4 inch document. It'll have your name, birth date and a bunch of key information about your vaccine regimen: which brand you got; when you received your dose or doses; where you were inoculated.

The idea of giving out cards to document a vaccination has been around since the 1930s, explains , an adjunct associate professor of epidemiology at