CDC vaccine card [merged thread]
Jul 6, 2021, 7:26 am
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CDC vaccine card [merged thread]
We are booked to fly to Italy in Sept. As of today, we can show our CDC vaccine cards and not have to quarantine. So today we were looking at our cards closely. We got our vaccines at 2 different Publix stores in Feb. Both cards do have the vaccine labels BUT on my HU card, the vaccine batch number is hand written for the first one, and not visible (the label was folded over and then worn) on the other one. Mine was not generated as a card but as a full sized copy but with visible lables / baatch numbers. Sorry, TMI?
Do you think if we show our cards to a Delta agent at a domestic check-in, they could tell us if they are going o be acceptable for or flight to Italy. Thanks!
Do you think if we show our cards to a Delta agent at a domestic check-in, they could tell us if they are going o be acceptable for or flight to Italy. Thanks!
Jul 6, 2021, 7:39 am
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We are booked to fly to Italy in Sept. As of today, we can show our CDC vaccine cards and not have to quarantine. So today we were looking at our cards closely. We got our vaccines at 2 different Publix stores in Feb. Both cards do have the vaccine labels BUT on my HU card, the vaccine batch number is hand written for the first one, and not visible (the label was folded over and then worn) on the other one. Mine was not generated as a card but as a full sized copy but with visible lables / baatch numbers. Sorry, TMI?
Do you think if we show our cards to a Delta agent at a domestic check-in, they could tell us if they are going o be acceptable for or flight to Italy. Thanks!
Do you think if we show our cards to a Delta agent at a domestic check-in, they could tell us if they are going o be acceptable for or flight to Italy. Thanks!
Jul 6, 2021, 8:07 am
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When my wife got her vac in Gwinnett county, they just gave her a sheet of paper. I later saw that you can bring documentation into the county board of health to get a CDC card or even addition ones if needed. We did that and they gave her 2 cards with the hand written info on them.
Jul 6, 2021, 8:42 am
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To piggyback on the OP's query, can you use a photo of the CDC card from your phone as proof of vaccination?
Jul 6, 2021, 9:53 am
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Think of it as your passport. Would they accept a photo of that?
Jul 6, 2021, 10:22 am
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We are booked to fly to Italy in Sept. As of today, we can show our CDC vaccine cards and not have to quarantine. So today we were looking at our cards closely. We got our vaccines at 2 different Publix stores in Feb. Both cards do have the vaccine labels BUT on my HU card, the vaccine batch number is hand written for the first one, and not visible (the label was folded over and then worn) on the other one. Mine was not generated as a card but as a full sized copy but with visible lables / baatch numbers. Sorry, TMI?
Do you think if we show our cards to a Delta agent at a domestic check-in, they could tell us if they are going o be acceptable for or flight to Italy. Thanks!
Do you think if we show our cards to a Delta agent at a domestic check-in, they could tell us if they are going o be acceptable for or flight to Italy. Thanks!
Jul 6, 2021, 10:43 am
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I believe there are certain requirements for the record including eg type of vaccine and where administered but even a print out should have been ok I would have thought. My vaccine card is literally handwritten with just the name of pharmacy and a scored out and corrected date! No issues. The photo would actually work with United since you can upload it to their travel ready Center and no one will ask to see it at the airport if it’s approved (my experience). At least for Paris I have read a few accounts that suggest they don’t bother to look at it at all and even though I handed mine to him to doubt he could have told if they vaccine was administered to an M Mouse so cursory was the glance
Jul 6, 2021, 10:59 am
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Unless requirements change from "proof of vaccination" to "specific vaccine card" I would not worry at all. There are so many different formats out there that airlines can not keep up checking every single detail.
I just flew SEA-AMS-ZRH with printout of my European vaccination and did not have any problems checking in with Delta in USA for flight to Europe. The agent did not even bother to check all details of my printout, which was partially in German. Nobody checked for vaccine or PCR test in AMS or ZRH.
I just flew SEA-AMS-ZRH with printout of my European vaccination and did not have any problems checking in with Delta in USA for flight to Europe. The agent did not even bother to check all details of my printout, which was partially in German. Nobody checked for vaccine or PCR test in AMS or ZRH.
Jul 6, 2021, 12:22 pm
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Get a WHO immunization booklet and put everything in there. 2/3 of my immunizations are hand written - some by me.
Jul 6, 2021, 1:07 pm
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Sorry, but that's a ridiculous analogy. No ID is required to get vaccinated. They ask for ID, but you can refuse, in which case they write whatever name you tell them on your vaccine card. It's the least secure document there is. When was the last time you saw a handwritten passport that can be obtained without ID?
Jul 6, 2021, 3:01 pm
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Sorry, but that's a ridiculous analogy. No ID is required to get vaccinated. They ask for ID, but you can refuse, in which case they write whatever name you tell them on your vaccine card. It's the least secure document there is. When was the last time you saw a handwritten passport that can be obtained without ID?
Agreed, I put my name on my card when I got home. My son's is the same way. Blank card with the dose info and date. My state has talked about some type of digital vac passport that you could show as a more official doc, but who knows if that is more than just chatter at this point.
Jul 6, 2021, 3:45 pm
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A data point in case helpful - flew DL from JFK - FCO on July 2 (arr July 3). Very brief eyeball of the CDC cards and passports by the GA at JFK, no check at all on the Italian side. Not sure if that was just this flight, that day, or what, but we were surprised to go through the bleary-eyed arrival cattle run through passport control and customs to arrive outside without having had any checks at all. (But, again, the Delta gate agent did look at our physical CDC cards and passports prior to boarding.)
Jul 6, 2021, 4:54 pm
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Sorry, but that's a ridiculous analogy. No ID is required to get vaccinated. They ask for ID, but you can refuse, in which case they write whatever name you tell them on your vaccine card. It's the least secure document there is. When was the last time you saw a handwritten passport that can be obtained without ID?
No it’s not a ridiculous analogy. They’re asking you to bring a piece of paper. Kind of like the idiot in front of me at the airport for years ago who had a photo of his drivers license and thought that should be good. LOL. When you send a request for guidance to the French government the embassy here responds with your CDC card is acceptable not that you can take a picture of it and that’ll be great.. If the piece of paper is required to go somewhere then it’s the same as bringing your passport
And in theory, they could ask you to show this in France when you land. They probably won’t because they are depending on the airline to do this for them. But f they don’t take your photo you’ll be getting on the plane to go home. But you will have made your point -stand on that principal. LOL Having watched the French immigration people in action, I have absolutely no faith that they will be impressed with your argument that you didn’t have to have an ID so it’s not the same as a passport and you should be allowed in. But it won’t matter, because Delta will not let you on the plane unless you have that hardcopy in front of you, they are not risking it.
Jul 6, 2021, 7:52 pm
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No it’s not a ridiculous analogy. They’re asking you to bring a piece of paper. Kind of like the idiot in front of me at the airport for years ago who had a photo of his drivers license and thought that should be good. LOL. When you send a request for guidance to the French government the embassy here responds with your CDC card is acceptable not that you can take a picture of it and that’ll be great.. If the piece of paper is required to go somewhere then it’s the same as bringing your passport
And in theory, they could ask you to show this in France when you land. They probably won’t because they are depending on the airline to do this for them. But f they don’t take your photo you’ll be getting on the plane to go home. But you will have made your point -stand on that principal. LOL Having watched the French immigration people in action, I have absolutely no faith that they will be impressed with your argument that you didn’t have to have an ID so it’s not the same as a passport and you should be allowed in. But it won’t matter, because Delta will not let you on the plane unless you have that hardcopy in front of you, they are not risking it.
And in theory, they could ask you to show this in France when you land. They probably won’t because they are depending on the airline to do this for them. But f they don’t take your photo you’ll be getting on the plane to go home. But you will have made your point -stand on that principal. LOL Having watched the French immigration people in action, I have absolutely no faith that they will be impressed with your argument that you didn’t have to have an ID so it’s not the same as a passport and you should be allowed in. But it won’t matter, because Delta will not let you on the plane unless you have that hardcopy in front of you, they are not risking it.
What I said is that a handwritten card that can be obtained without any verification whatsoever is not analogous to a passport which is one of the most secure and trusted documents in our society. You seem determined to dig deeper into nonsense.
Jul 6, 2021, 10:52 pm
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No it’s not a ridiculous analogy. They’re asking you to bring a piece of paper. Kind of like the idiot in front of me at the airport for years ago who had a photo of his drivers license and thought that should be good. LOL. When you send a request for guidance to the French government the embassy here responds with your CDC card is acceptable not that you can take a picture of it and that’ll be great.. If the piece of paper is required to go somewhere then it’s the same as bringing your passport
And in theory, they could ask you to show this in France when you land. They probably won’t because they are depending on the airline to do this for them. But f they don’t take your photo you’ll be getting on the plane to go home. But you will have made your point -stand on that principal. LOL Having watched the French immigration people in action, I have absolutely no faith that they will be impressed with your argument that you didn’t have to have an ID so it’s not the same as a passport and you should be allowed in. But it won’t matter, because Delta will not let you on the plane unless you have that hardcopy in front of you, they are not risking it.
And in theory, they could ask you to show this in France when you land. They probably won’t because they are depending on the airline to do this for them. But f they don’t take your photo you’ll be getting on the plane to go home. But you will have made your point -stand on that principal. LOL Having watched the French immigration people in action, I have absolutely no faith that they will be impressed with your argument that you didn’t have to have an ID so it’s not the same as a passport and you should be allowed in. But it won’t matter, because Delta will not let you on the plane unless you have that hardcopy in front of you, they are not risking it.
As has been noted, in fact lots of airline simply have you upload a copy .