From what I've seen there's enough variation in how the cards are filled out that even some of the real ones look fake. To the point where if I saw one with all the fields nicely filled out with proper batch numbers, expiration dates, hospital, and nurse I'd think it was too good to be real.
A lot of hospital technology is surprisingly obscure and bespoke and boils down to "oh <very senior employee> has been doing it this way for 30 years and won't be able to do it any other way".
It would be wrong to type in "Covid vaccination card" into an image search and record batch numbers and vaccination dates from all the people who have posted photos of themselves holding their completed vaccination cards. So definitely don't do that.
Edit: It would be even more wrong to save the images in an album so people could get a general feel for what the vaccination cards look like, the variation in how they are filled out, and so on.
In the photos I've seen they appear to be printed on white cardstock, but it's hard to determine the exact weight of the cardstock. In some photos the cards appear a bit flimsy while in others they appear to be a bit thicker.
From what I can tell the vaccination kits from the CDC include the cards. I haven't yet found any Federal guidelines on vaccination card specifications or RFQs, but that might not be a bad approach to take if one took an interest in such things.
Edit: This is probably the best photo I've found to help illustrate how thick the cards are. I count about 50 cards in that right stack, and it's a fair bit taller than the phone.
From what I've seen there's enough variation in how the cards are filled out that even some of the real ones look fake. To the point where if I saw one with all the fields nicely filled out with proper batch numbers, expiration dates, hospital, and nurse I'd think it was too good to be real.
A lot of hospital technology is surprisingly obscure and bespoke and boils down to "oh <very senior employee> has been doing it this way for 30 years and won't be able to do it any other way".
That's a funny way to say Windows XP...
It would be wrong to type in "Covid vaccination card" into an image search and record batch numbers and vaccination dates from all the people who have posted photos of themselves holding their completed vaccination cards. So definitely don't do that.
Edit: It would be even more wrong to save the images in an album so people could get a general feel for what the vaccination cards look like, the variation in how they are filled out, and so on.
Now, hypothetically, are the official cards on cardstock of any kind? Or just normally printed?
In the photos I've seen they appear to be printed on white cardstock, but it's hard to determine the exact weight of the cardstock. In some photos the cards appear a bit flimsy while in others they appear to be a bit thicker. From what I can tell the vaccination kits from the CDC include the cards. I haven't yet found any Federal guidelines on vaccination card specifications or RFQs, but that might not be a bad approach to take if one took an interest in such things.
Edit: This is probably the best photo I've found to help illustrate how thick the cards are. I count about 50 cards in that right stack, and it's a fair bit taller than the phone.
If you put /zip on the end you can save the whole album at once for later study
https://imgur.com/a/t2MjsTC/zip
I used a micrometer on some blank cards I have, which says they are just over .35mm and the internet tell me that is 110 lbs paper.
According to my research on cardstock that's one of the most popular cardstock weights, so that passes the "smell test".