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CDC Stickers, Buttons Raise Vaccination Awareness

The United States began vaccinating healthcare workers against COVID-19 on Monday, Dec. 14.

Stickers, buttons and posters are among the promotional products health officials plan to use to raise awareness about getting vaccinated against COVID-19 – and to encourage people to do so.

In a landmark moment in the fight against the pandemic that’s killed approximately 300,000 people in the United States in 2020, the nation began administering the first COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday, Dec. 14. A broader rollout to the nation’s full population is expected to occur by March or April.

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CDC templates for downloadable and printable stickers that show that the wearer has been vaccinated against COVID-19.

With the vaccination campaign commencing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a “Vaccination Communication Toolkit” for medical centers, clinics and clinicians. It includes downloadable and printable designs for vaccine-related posters and stickers.

The stickers, which come in orange and white, read, “I Got My COVID-19 Vaccine!” Healthcare workers are the first being immunized against the virus, and the idea is for those frontline workers to wear the stickers.

There are three different poster templates, built around different vaccination themes. One, for instance, shares information about why healthcare workers should be vaccinated. The CDC said these posters can be printed and hung in health facility common areas and staff break rooms to foster conversation and make vaccination visible.

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A CDC template for a poster focused on why it’s important to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Buttons weren’t available through the toolkit, but the sticker model could potentially be used as a template for them. The CDC recently said that both buttons and stickers could eventually be given out to patients once they start getting vaccinated, according to ABC.

Dr. Amanda Cohn, a senior CDC official who has been working with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, told ABC that the stickers and buttons are part of a broader effort to build confidence in the vaccine.

“We think it’s really important that when an individual is vaccinated we make it visible they’ve been vaccinated,” Cohn said during a webinar.

The vaccination buttons and stickers are intended to work along similar lines of “I Voted” stickers, promoting vaccination just as the voting stickers aim to promote voting.

Even after being vaccinated, officials say people should continue to wear masks.

Not every suggestion on generating awareness about vaccination has been met well. Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya sustained criticism when he suggested that people who’ve been vaccinated should wear a “mask of a special design or color.”