9 year-old Josie Murdoch holds her vaccination card at Chapel Hill Pediatrics and Youth after being innoculated with the Pfizer kid 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 Youth after being innoculated with the Pfizer kid 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 steerage up to date on Wednesday.

It’ll additionally now not be maintaining data of other folks’s vaccinations, as there is not any nationwide vaccine registry.

People can obtain a virtual or paper replica in their complete vaccination data, together with the ones for COVID-19, by means of contacting their state well being division’s immunization data gadget. Immunization suppliers additionally retain the ones data.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many puts, reminiscent of leisure venues, eating places and employers started requiring other folks to turn their vaccination playing cards to realize access or be employed.

The CDC issued 980 million of the playing cards between 2020 and Might 2023, in step with the Related Press.

The Justice Division has warned the general public that making pretend copies of the playing cards is illegitimate and punishable below federal regulation.

Native prosecutors started cracking down on other folks making pretend, clean copies of the playing cards. In a single case, a California guy was once arrested and charged with identification robbery, forging executive paperwork and falsifying scientific data.

In every other, a New Jersey girl was once charged with providing a false device, legal ownership of a cast device and conspiracy for allegedly promoting pretend COVID-19 vaccination playing cards on Instagram.

A former CVS worker in New York was once stuck with COVID-19 vaccination playing cards that he meant to offer friends and family. New York lawmakers then made it a prison to forge or have pretend immunization data.