You're going to be asked to prove your vaccination status. Here's how to do it.

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You’re going to be asked to prove your vaccination status. Here’s how to do it.

Your smartphone can help you safely carry your coronavirus vaccination record, from a simple photo snap to a secure app. Just don’t call it a ‘vaccine passport.’

By Chris Velazco and Geoffrey A. Fowler
August 3, 2021 at 12:41 p.m. EDT

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There are a growing number of ways to store your vaccination record on your smartphone, though unfortunately no be-all-end-all app or system. We’re here to make sense of how different options approach your privacy, ensure security and try to spot counterfeits.

Just know this technology is still evolving, and places are making up their own rules about what they’ll accept as proof as they go along. So you still might want to carry that physical card with you when you’re headed somewhere super important.

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By Chris Velazco
Chris Velazco covers the ever-evolving role technology plays in people's lives for The Washington Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/chrisvelazco

By Geoffrey Fowler
Geoffrey A. Fowler is The Washington Post’s technology columnist based in San Francisco. He joined The Post in 2017 after 16 years with the Wall Street Journal. He won the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for commentary. Twitter https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler

[lark]

1. Funny, this is the first thing my husband did when getting home from the shot.

So we have 2 versions of the pix, one with 1 shot and 1 with 2 shots. And of course, we keep the originals in our wallets with our drivers license, insurance cards, etc. Not useful yet, but expect it will be some day.

[Rorey]

3. I did that to show it off to my family

The bonus is having the photo on my phone. I do the same with other important things, like proof of car insurance, and also medical insurance cards.

[lark]

5. Yes, us too.

[viva la]

2. My state dept of health also had a printable certificate

Just saying NAME is fully vaccinated.

Easily forgible, BTW. I'm carrying my card too.

[genxlib]

4. There is a tremendous irony here

It would be so much more technologically certain if they had just injected microchips with the vaccine.

[lark]

6. Ooh, you bad person.