Quietly and over some objections, a national digital vaccine card has emerged.

[ShazzieB]

The SMART Health Card is voluntary and minimal by design to protect personal information. About 80 percent of vaccinated people in the U.S. most likely have access to it.

Whether they realize it or not, about 200 million people in the United States now likely have access to a Covid-19 digital vaccine card.

The digital pass known as the SMART Health Card is voluntary and minimal by design to protect personal information. It has a person’s name, date of birth and the dates and brands of vaccination doses, all contained within a type of scannable bar code known as a QR code.

And after a relatively quiet start, it has built momentum in recent months as more states and companies have signed on, making it something of a de facto national digital vaccine card.

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Rather than a single app, the SMART Health Card is open-source computer code that anyone can use to ping a verified source of health data and produce the unique QR code. The digital cards are now widely available from more than 400 sources including states, pharmacies and health care organizations.

Much more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/national-covid-vaccine-card-quietly-emerged-rcna11678

This is brand new news to me! Unfortunately, only 13 states are participating so far, but it sounds like more are signing on all the time.

A list of U.S. SMART Health Card issuers can be found here: https://smarthealth.cards/en/issuers.html

[jeffreyi]

1. I live in California, and have one.

[LTG]

3. I've got one too.

I live in Washington and have mine (digital) in my phone. Issued by the state Department of Health. Got it a couple months ago.

Used it to verify vaccination status with my employer. Much more reliable than the paper cards you get with your shots.

[piddyprints]

4. So if your state doesn't participate,

You can’t either?

I live in TN. Our governor is competing with DeathSentence to make sure Covid keeps spreading.

[YP_Yooper]

5. And the very next thing to come about

is linking voting rights to a card that can dynamically change your ability to vote from the central server.

No thank you. Sometimes - many times - tech is too centrally corruptible.

[IL Dem]

6. I have one through the MyChart system with my health care provider.

I'm in the BJC system out of St. Louis.

[msfiddlestix]

7. Did this with my first vaccination...

the second and booster was automatically registered on the card, i believe. well actually I didn't have to doi anything for the first time, it was just done in the system I guess. I had the option to download the image to my phone, but first I had to attach a selfie and then voila! Vaccination card right on my phone saved in my photo gallery. Easy to present when traveling etc.