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Say goodbye to the COVID-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them
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FILE - A nurse practitioner holds a COVID-19 vaccine card at a New York Health and Hospitals vaccine clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Jan. 10, 2021. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed through the commercial markets instead of by the federal government in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention won't be shipping out any more new cards. - photo by AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File
It's the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19 vaccination cards are being phased out. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are not being distributed by the federal government, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped printing new cards. The federal government shipped more than 980 million cards between late 2020, when the first vaccines came out, through May 10, according to the latest available data from the CDC.