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| Topic | College students are buying fake vaccine cards to circumvent shot requirements |
| Lebronwon 08/03/21 11:58:24 PM #1: | https://www.wral.com/college-studnets-are-buying-fake-vaccine-cards-to-send-to-universities/19808133/ College students are willing to pay a lot of money to get their hands on vaccination cards. The cards, of course, are free as proof that a person has had the COVID-19 vaccine. But students are using the fakes to provide that proof and circumvent campus requirements that they either get the shot or submit to regular testing. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, students must provide a copy of the card before their return to campus or be tested every week. Duke University requires students to present proof of vaccination with no testing alternative. Less than a week after students were notified of the new rules, a UNC professor sounded the alarm on Twitter about students who knew how to buy a fake COVID-19 vaccine cards and knew of others who submitted one to the university. It is really disturbing the lengths that some students are willing to go to subvert the university requirements and really subvert their duty to their fellow students to keep everyone safe, said Simon Palmore. Palmore is a junior at UNC. He said he has heard of many of his fellow classmates deciding to buy vaccine cards to send to the university. Theres a reason that the university is requiring all unvaccinated students to undergo regular testing, and these students are going to be able to do subvert the regular testing while also not being protected from the virus and prevent the spread from others, said Palmore. To me, the type of people who would fake a vaccine card are the type of people who might go to parties and get COVID, and thats the group I think should be tested weekly, said J.D. Boyd, a dental student at UNC. Students describe it as easy as getting a fake ID. Online vendors have made blank cards more accessible to anyone. Im in the health care world," Boyd said, "Thats just absolutely horrible. Were on an educated college campus in one of the most educated places in the world and how can you be faking a vaccine card when you have people to care about?" WRAL News took the issue to officials at the Orange County Health Department who call the fakes and the fakers extremely dangerous. If anybody is out there trying to get around the testing requirements, thats really something that should be dealt with severely by any university we believe, said Todd McGee with the Orange County Health Department. --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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