The COVID-19 vaccination card looks almost vintage: A rudimentary, wallet-sized ticket of sorts, with some handwritten information and dates of inoculation. It s also a reminder to get your second dose.
But its existence has stirred a lot of discussion about how this proof of vaccination might be used for other COVID-19 pandemic purposes.
We asked regional medical experts about the card and what you ll need to do with it.
Here s who we asked:
M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Kentucky s Program for Bioethics.
Dr. Robert Frenck, principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit and director of Gamble Vaccine Research Center. He s leading the COVID-19 vaccine trials at Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center.
Dr. Stephen Feagins, chief clinical officer, Mercy Health–Cincinnati.
Dr. Robert Frenck, principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit, director of Gamble Vaccine Research Center. He s leading the COVID-19 vaccine trials at Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center.
Dr. Thomas Lamarre, infectious disease specialist, The Christ Hospital.
Here s what we asked, and how they responded:
If you or a friend or colleague or family member had COVID-19 already, would you get or tell
them to get the vaccine anyway?
Blatt:
Yes. I would recommend that anyone who has already had COVID infection get a vaccine. The reason is that natural infection immunity seems to wear out after two to three months. We are hoping that the vaccine will provide longer lasting immunity. So far, the antibody responses to the vaccine seem to last longer than the antibody responses to natural infection.