Where to you keep your COVID shot record? For the longest time (until yesterday) I kept it in the car as we were initially doing the drive through vaccinations. As I will need it for a trip next month, I have placed it inside my passport now (with a picture on my phone). My bride has hers in her wallet.
My state not only does not require proof of vaccination, but has all but outlawed it, so I dont need to keep it with me.
Where is yours?
How often do you need it?
I'm not traveling right now so it's in my medical file.
We have to show our official QR code occasionally, & it's easiest on a smartphone. It prints out on 8x11 paper for those without smart phones (so I assume they fold it carefully so as not to mess up the code). On campus, if you want to eat or use the library, you have to show the university QR code. I don't know if there's an option for those without smart phones.
Quote from: Morden on December 15, 2021, 09:10:19 AM
We have to show our official QR code occasionally, & it's easiest on a smartphone. It prints out on 8x11 paper for those without smart phones (so I assume they fold it carefully so as not to mess up the code). On campus, if you want to eat or use the library, you have to show the university QR code. I don't know if there's an option for those without smart phones.
Same here.
Stuffed in my wallet. Bit of a tight fit.
Paperclipped in a physical folder in our family files. I also took a photo and have it in my phone and dropbox. I don't have any circumstances to show it though so this is my good enough solution until I need to do something different.
In my purse, with a digital image on my tablet and on file at my workplace.
At home, on a bookcase in my den, right near a couple of back-up masks.
On top of my dresser. Digital version on my phone always with me.
I keep the physical copy with me. It has come in handy.
I keep a digital copy on file somewhere in the black hole of my computer files.
The physical copy is in one of my "travel" handbags, but in our state, we can also access our excelsior pass (aks covid vaccine proof) on our phones.
https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/excelsior-pass-and-excelsior-pass-plus
I've found it useful as I once had to show proof for getting into a building.
I can also access the dates and the vaccine administered through the patient portal of my primary physician's practice--on my computer, and on my phone.
In my wallet. I had to scan and upload it for work a few months ago.
In my bag next to me. And I got a pic of it too on my phone.
In my car's center console or whatever you call that thing in between the two front seats. After reading this thread I now will make sure to get a picture of it.
Physical card is in my passport currently. It fits nicely in there, but I'm afraid it will fall out during travel so I should probably get a case for it. Picture on my phone, saved to a "note" for easy access, but I should update that to one with the booster added.
In a special vaccine card sleeve, stuck to the fridge with a magnet. I'm glad we got the sleeves, since our cards were starting to warp when we traveled somewhere that required showing them frequently.
Physical copy in my wallet next to my driver's license, school id, health and auto insurance cards. All digital copies are in my phone and laptop. The antisons asked why I carried all those documents. The truth - you need them when you need them. Sometimes you can't anticipate the necessity, so it's best to be prepared.
With my passport and my passport is on my desk.
Mine is in my wallet. It didn't fit so I folded it. I realize this does not guarantee longevity, but perhaps I am hoping that the pandemic will end before my card.
The reason I carry it in my wallet is that I need to show it regularly. At least once a week, and sometimes more; sometimes several times a day. (Where I live you are supposed to be vaccinated to do various stuff. Sometimes they don't ask. Sometimes they ask but don't verify. Sometimes they ask to see the card and a photo ID.) Yes I have photos on my phone, but it is usually easier to pull out the thing itself.
Would a photocopy or picture be sufficient to get on a plane?
Quote from: Anselm on December 15, 2021, 03:02:31 PM
In my car's center console or whatever you call that thing in between the two front seats. After reading this thread I now will make sure to get a picture of it.
Armrest & storage compartment
Quote from: Anselm on December 16, 2021, 08:20:06 AM
Would a photocopy or picture be sufficient to get on a plane?
I got on a plane having uploaded an image to the app the airline uses.
Photo on the phone, original inside my passport along with the rest of my vaccine history.
Wallet.
Always wonder how they know it was a pharmacist who filled it out and not me.
Wonder if they can read the handwriting.
The original is with Important Documents in a Safe Place.
I made an 80% copy and laminated it to keep with my license and school ID. I'd rather show that than hand over my phone.
I'm in an allied health field. Half the population cannot find its insurance card when requiring health services. Or they cannot remember the name of the physician they just visited. The names of their medications?? Fuhgeddaboudit.
But having worked a number of times in vax clinics this year, nearly everybody knows where their vaccine card is. It's a bloomin' miracle.
I have a photo of it saved in my phone. The hard copy is in a folder in my home office.
Nobody has ever asked me to see either, except the pharmacist when I got my booster.
I get the potential benefit of taking a picture of the thing on your smartphone. But, of course, 1) one needs to have a phone capable of doing this (some still don't) and then 2) one needs to know how to take that picture, AND save it to the phone, AND know how to retrieve it. Lottsa assumptions there.