V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker

V-safe is a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccination. Through v-safe, you can quickly tell CDC if you have any side effects after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Depending on your answers, someone from CDC may call to check on you and get more information.

V-safe will also remind you to get your second COVID-19 vaccine dose if you need one. V-safe cannot schedule vaccine appointments, including second doses of COVID-19 vaccines. If you need to schedule, reschedule, or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment, contact the location that set up your appointment or a vaccine provider in your area. This may be your state or local health department, employer, or vaccine provider. ​

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How to register and use v-safe

Register

You will need your smartphone and information about the COVID-19 vaccine you received. This information can be found on the vaccination record card you received during your vaccination; if you cannot find your card, please  contact your healthcare provider.

Register for v-safe

Registration Process

1. Go to vsafe.cdc.gov. Read the onscreen instructions and click Get Started.
   
2. Enter your name, mobile number, and other requested information. Click Register.
   
3. You will receive a text message with a verification code on your smartphone. Enter the code in
   v-safe and click Verify.
   
4. At the top of the screen, click Enter vaccine information.
   
5. Select which COVID-19 vaccine you received (you can find this on your vaccination record card; if you cannot find your card, please contact your healthcare provider). Enter the date you were vaccinated. Click Next.
   
6. Review your vaccine information. If the information is correct, click Submit. If it’s not correct, click Go Back to correct it.
   
7. Congrats! You’re all set! If you complete your registration before 2 p.m. local time, v-safe will start your initial health check-in around 2 p.m. that day. If you register after 2 p.m., v-safe will start your initial health check-in immediately after you register — just follow the instructions.

Registration before 2 p.m. local time:

Registration after 2 p.m. local time:

 

What happens next?

You will receive a mid-afternoon reminder text message from v-safe  for the next check-in. Just click the link in the text message to start your check-in.

Complete a v-safe health check-in

1. When you receive a v-safe check-in text message on your smartphone, click the link when you’re ready. Remember: Links to v-safe daily surveys expire at 11:59 PM local time on the day you received the link. Links to weekly surveys expire at 11:59 PM local time on day 6 after you received the link.
   
2. Follow the instructions to complete your check-in.