V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker for COVID-19 Vaccine | CDC

Download and print info sheets and a poster to learn more about v-safe, including instructions on how to enroll and complete health check-ins.

V-safe is a safety monitoring system that lets you share with CDC how you, or your dependent, feel after getting a COVID-19 vaccine. After you enroll, v-safe will send you personalized and confidential health check-ins via text messages and web surveys to ask how you feel, including if you experience any side effects after vaccination.  Completing health check-ins and sharing how you feel, even if you don’t experience side effects after vaccination, helps CDC monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

V-safe features:

• Enroll during the waiting period after you get any dose of COVID-19 vaccine or soon after vaccination
• Add a dependent and complete health check-ins on their behalf
• Enter and report how you, or your dependent, feel after first, second, additional, and updated booster doses
• Available in multiple languages including English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese

Enroll in V-safe

You can enroll in v-safe after any dose of COVID-19 vaccine, including updated boosters, by using your smartphone and going to vsafe.cdc.gov. Have your vaccination record card available to help you remember which vaccine you received and when.

Add a Dependent in V-safe

You can add any dependent (family member, friend, or individual who relies on you for support) who is vaccinated in v-safe.

Children under age 16 years must be added to a parent or guardian’s v-safe account. You can add a dependent to your existing account or create a new account if you don’t have one yet. All v-safe communications will be sent to the parent’s or guardian’s smartphone.

Creating an account to add a dependent does not require that you enter your own vaccination information or complete health check-ins for yourself.

What Happens After I Enroll?

During the first week after each vaccination, v-safe will send you a text message each day to ask how you are feeling. After that, you will receive occasional health check-ins. Depending on your answers, someone from CDC may call to get more information.

You can opt out at any time.

Your personal information in v-safe is protected so it’s safe and private.

Will I Ever be Contacted by V-safe Staff?

If you enroll in v-safe and report that you are pregnant at the time of vaccination or after vaccination, the CDC COVID-19 Pregnancy Registry staff* may contact you.

If you have symptoms or health problems that concern you at any time following COVID-19 vaccination, please contact your healthcare professional.

*Abt Associates  has been contracted by the CDC to contact participants for CDC’s v-safe COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Registry.