SingaporeDon

I understand Singapore is happy with a single J&J vaccine, so if your booster was a J&J vaccine, digital SHC of that last J&J booster itself may be sufficient, although it would be interesting to see if CVC manages to pick up the previous 2 shots as well.

Did you go for the same booster as your earlier two shots? I know some people are hesitant to go from Pfizer/Pfizer or Moderna/Moderna to a J&J booster, given no one has a clear idea about the science and after effects now or later

dkerr

Moderna for dose 1 & 2, Pfizer for the booster. In all cases because that is what they had. I would happily have got the J&J as a booster if they had that.

sbs2716g

Latest update

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sing...NbAY2wL_33_1rU

SingaporeDon

i wonder if vaccinecheck will be approved again after the 27 Oct disapproval by Singapore.

“Ms Tan said that the CAAS is onboarding third-party issuers that check and verify the vaccination records submitted by their users, for example, with state vaccination registries.”

otherwise “They can also use their physical vaccination record and a letter signed by their vaccination provider to attest to their vaccination status. The letter should contain the traveller’s details and details about the vaccination” may be difficult for pax to get if the vaccine was administered at a FEMA CVC or pop up camps administered by Federal or state governments or at 2 different places

Don’t understand why Singapore can’t accept a CDC issued Covid 19 vaccine certificate even if is unsigned?

freed0m

Did CDC issue COVID-19 vaccine certificates? I thought CDC just printed and distributed some cards and that's about it.

SingaporeDon

DS got one with manufacturer, lot #, date and place of vaccination but may be that was because he got his at a FEMA CVC in Maryland just outside DC

Kacee

Yes issued in blank. Most of them are filled in by hand.

Kacee

For those who were vaccinated in California. Big difference.

I was vaccinated in AZ (months earlier than I could have been in CA). I'll probably get a J&J booster in California so I can get a Smart QR.

vanillabean

A fourth minute could be having the Smart Health Card Verifier app scan the QR code?

dkerr

If you made your appointments through the CDC VAMS (Vaccine Administration Management System) then there is a record at that web site and you can download a PDF. It comes with a QR code, but it is not SMART Health card compatible. VAMS is linked to your state Department of Public Health, in my case Connecticut. Any updates to VAMS are mirrored into the state record. For CT you can download a PDF but it does not include any QR code.

Note all states used VAMS, some used their own appointment system. In that case, or if you get a vaccine dose from somewhere like CVS, Walmart, etc. they do not use VAMS so there is no record of that at the CDC, but they are very likely to be required by law to send the information to your state's Department of Public Health. That is certainly the case in CT.

DAK

dkerr

Well, that sounds like progress. I'm pleased to see that they list Connecticut as being in testing phase as that is where I live. While I lucked out on a SMART Health card for myself, I'm still working on my wife. Our trip is not until January so it is starting to feel like by then things will be a lot easier.

SingaporeDon

This is what is acceptable if you were vaccinated on USA
“^If your vaccination record was issued in the US but you are unable to produce a digitally verifiable vaccination certificate, you can provide either

(a) your digital vaccination record retrieved through your state’s or local health authority’s public health database, or ( QUESTION WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY DIGITAL? WHAT IF YOUR STATE OR LHA does need to have a public health database but has one which is not digital? )

(b) your physical vaccination records and a letter signed by your vaccination provider to attest to your vaccination status; the attestation letter should contain: ( MOST CDC ISSUED CERTIFICATES ARE NOT SIGNED, May be other issuers HAND WRITE OR GIVE PRINTED CERTIFICATE BUT DONT SIGN IT!)

1. your name and at least one other personal identifier such as the date of birth or passport number corresponding exactly with the information in your passport used for entry into Singapore;
2. the name of the vaccine administered for each dose; and
3. the date when each dose was administered.”

As noted in CAPITALS by me above will no doubt help done but not all cases with problems getting even newly relaxed guideline Vaccine Certificates

Wonder if VaccineCheck issued certificates will be accepted now ?

pWei

(b) - If you have no luck with getting a QR code at all - Maybe you can get your doctor to sign a letter saying you're vaccinated, with the information requested. I guess doc could word it something like "As per vaccination record / CDC card, patient XXX was vaccinated....".

Don't need to argue with the requirement. Just find a way to fulfill the requirement; hopefully without taking an otherwise pointless JnJ dose.

SingaporeDon

Not arguing with the requirements but just pointing out that given terms are not clearly defined and subject to varying interpretations ( "signed", meaning signed by any doctor, as you seem to suggest or only by the provider who gave you the vaccination, and what if you got your 2 doses in two different places/states?) it will create more confusion

By way of example, a friend who is a PR had the following experience checking into a Scoot VTL flight at Berlin
1) checking in Agent insisted he needs a VTP, and made him apply for one on the spot and pay for a Changi PCR test when as a PR he does not require VTP
2) Same checking in agent refusing to accept his US issued SHC, although in his case it was digitally issued with QR code. What is to stop an enthusiastic checking in agent not allowing you to board a VTL flight to Singapore as "your vaccine certificate is not exactly as per the new revised, (but loosely defined) wording of what is acceptable

merrickdb

Might getting an EU Digital Vaccine card be the easiest solution? I got one online from Switzerland based on my U.S. CDC Vaccination Card. Depending on which option you select, there may be a processing fee. https://covidcertificate-form.admin.ch/foreign