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Adding Dependent Children to Your V-Safe Account

Just as you did when we were vaccinated and protected, by adding your dependent children to your v-safe account, you can help to make sure CDC knows about any side effects your kids might have after they get their COVID vaccines.

You can register your kids for v-safe too when they get their COVID vaccine too!
You can register your kids for v-safe too when they get their COVID vaccine too!

Have you registered your kids for v-safe yet?

Adding Dependent Children to Your V-Safe Account

Although teens who are at least 16 years old can register for their own accounts, you can also add your children, no matter their age, onto your own v-safe account…

Adding dependent children to your v-safe account is easy.
Adding dependent children to your v-safe account is easy.

Don’t have a v-safe account yet?

That’s ok.

You can register for v-safe just to add your children!

Go to vsafe.cdc.gov to register for v-safe and add your children. You will be enter their vaccine information after you receive a text message with a verification code on your smartphone.
Go to vsafe.cdc.gov to register for v-safe and add your children. You will be enter their vaccine information after you receive a text message with a verification code on your smartphone.

If you already have a v-safe account, you can access your account and then add your children.

“During the first week after you get your vaccine, v-safe will send you a text message each day to ask how you are doing. Then v-safe will send you check-in messages once a week for up to 6 weeks. The questions v-safe asks take less than 5 minutes to answer.

After you enter another dose of vaccine, v-safe will restart the check-in process so you can share your experience after this dose as well. Finally, you’ll receive check-ins 3, 6, and 12 months after your final dose of vaccine.”

Frequently Asked Questions about v-safe

What is CDC doing with all of the data they get from v-safe?

CDC aggregates and compares data from v-safe.
CDC aggregates and compares data from v-safe.

For one thing, they will be able to compare side effects between younger and older kids who are vaccinated.

Did you know that younger kids have been reporting fewer side effects after getting their COVID vaccines?
Did you know that younger kids have been reporting fewer side effects after getting their COVID vaccines?

Mostly, along with their other COVID vaccine safety monitoring systems, CDC will use v-safe data to help detect safety signals after children and adults get their COVID vaccines.

And of course, in addition to the active v-safe system, you should still report vaccine side effects to VAERS.

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