Proving you're vaccinated against COVID-19 could be as easy as pulling out your phone in the future.

This week, one company started giving a digital vaccine record to people getting the shot in Los Angeles County.

Healthvana is partnering with the county to help make sure people get both doses of the vaccine. The company is also talking with other states to bring this technology there.

“Right now, that's the status quo is you'll get a piece of paper that will say, ‘hey you got a Pfizer vaccination, come back in this amount of days,’ and we think it's a complimentary feature to have something that goes onto your phone in a way that you can kind of capture,” said Ramin Bastani, CEO of Healthvana.

People have to opt in to get vaccine information digitally. Then they enter their name and birthdate into the Healthvana system to get access. From there, they can screenshot their vaccine record on their phone or put it into apple wallet.

“You can use it when you want to use it. As a patient or as a person, you may want to use it to show your school and airline if they require it or an employer, so it's pretty much our whole goal in this to make sure we get the information to the patient in a way they can have it at their fingertips,” said Bastani.

The company says this isn't an immunity passport like some people have been talking about. That's because they don't know yet who's going to accept this digital record from your phone.

But they tell us everyone from event planning companies to airlines and universities have contacted them about using the technology.

Healthvana says it has experience keeping private health information secure from its years of delivering HIV test results to patients. It stores data on Amazon Web Service's HIPAA-compliant servers.

CINCINNATI — The thought of going back into lockdown is enough to put anyone on edge again after 16 months of constant vigilance.

There’s no immediate threat that people in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will be ordered to once again mask up — but Los Angeles County residents in California are starting on Saturday, and other countries continue to implement localized lockdowns in response to pop-up outbreaks.

The Los Angeles mandate is sparking conversation across the country: Will it happen where you live?

Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff of the Ohio Department of Health said it’s difficult to predict whether case numbers and death will rise to levels requiring dramatic action.

“I think we’re in a very different position than we were in as we were heading into last fall,” he said. “We had no vaccine available as we were heading into last fall, and now … when we look at those 18 and older, almost 60% of Ohioans have begun the vaccination process, and when we look at those 65 and older, the numbers are better than 80%. We have a lot of good protection there.”

For now, it’s unlikely. The Ohio Department of Health declined to answer questions about whether officials were considering another lockdown.

But even the thought of backtracking into stricter quarantine measures can be anxiety-inducing, said psychologist Dr. Ashley Solomon. She believes people all over the world are living with “pandemic fatigue,” a state of mental and emotional overstimulation that comes from enduring a yearlong global crisis.

“Our alert systems are jacked up to high, and we’re looking out for any sign that we could be going backward, whether or not that’s actually true and going to happen,” she said. “It’s actually going to take some more work to work through the anxiety that’s been brought on to this pandemic and the trauma that so many of us have experienced.”

Solomon recommends practicing self-care and challenging anxious or catastrophizing thoughts when they appear. Vaccination and good hygiene stop the spread of COVID-19 and can help prevent another lockdown. Worrying doesn’t.