# Fake vaccination cards

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-vaccination-cards/937970>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 15, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-vaccination-cards/937970 "2021-03-15T23:48:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-vaccination-cards/937970/69 "2021-09-28T21:58:43Z")

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I think the discussion of vaccination cards vs paper records over in breaking news is interesting. I don’t want to hijack that thread though.

Maybe we can continue it here?

I think the issue of some people having gotten no card, but only a printout makes things more complicated.

> [@Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/2700):
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> Public places like restaurants will have to have policies that literally anything is acceptable instead of requiring the CDC vax card. Vax paperwork given out by vax sites should be CDC cards, not random printouts on A4 paper.

It also means relying on laws against faking federal agency logos won’t work for prosecuting people who get caught.

I also would like to avoid burdening people who _did_ get vaccinated but didn’t get cards.

My preference would be a way to quickly check state registries, and a law against giving false vaccination information, which carries serious penalties based on endangering others.

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