How to protect your COVID-19 card from loss or damage

If you get the COVID-19 vaccine, you also get an important souvenir, a vaccine card. But what if you lose it?

The two-dose COVID-19 vaccine forces people to wait three to four weeks between injections. After the first shot, people will be given a card showing when and where you got it.

This card should be returned at the time of the second dose.

Fortunately, if you lose the card, it doesn’t mean that you can’t get the second dose or that you’ll end up without full protection.

The card can be replaced at the location where the first hit was administered.

“These records are part of the Texas Immunization Registry, so if you lose your card between doses, the Houston Department of Health is able to provide the second dose on that card, so you will have that record,” he said. said Porfirio Villareal with the health department.

A good way to protect yourself is to take a photo of the card with your phone so that you have a recording handy.

Because your records are part of the Texas Immunization Registry, your doctor can access this information and produce documents to prove that you are vaccinated.

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After the second dose, if you want to protect the card from damage, there are places offering to laminate them for free. Health officials have said it’s okay to do this if you want to.

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