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Experts say information from your COVID vaccine card is all scammers need to sell fake ones online. Author: Paula Vasan (WHAS 11) Published: 1:00 PM EDT April 12, 2021 Updated: 11:21 PM EDT April 12, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Noel Osborn couldn’t wait to share she got her COVID vaccine.
“I was really excited, she said.
She took a selfie, with her vaccine card.
“I thought me sharing that I had gotten vaccinated would help encourage some of the other people in my life, said Osborn, who lives in Lexington.
She blurred her patient ID, but left her birthday and some other information.
“Maybe I should have blurred that out. I’m not sure, she said.
Brace Yourselves For Vaccine Card Fakes, Which the FBI Considers a Federal Crime
Next up in our Great American Pandemic Story we are likely to see a wave of stories about vaccination card forgeries given how easy they are to fake, how many dumb Americans are still avoiding getting vaccinated, and how concerts and other events are going to start requiring people to prove they re vaccinated. And apparently some fake cards have already appeared for sale on places like eBay and Twitter.
Maybe around the Bay Area, where COVID vaccination demand is high and skepticism is low compared to other parts of the state and country, this won t be a major problem. But federal and state authorities are already preparing for a crackdown on faked vaccination cards, and a coalition of 45 attorneys general just co-signed a letter aimed at the CEOs of Twitter, Shopify, and eBay asking them to participate in the crackdown and not allow blank or fraudulently completed cards to be sold on their platforms
Purdue Pharma proposes larger settlement to exit bankruptcy
Plaintiffs suing the opioid maker have initially dismissed the deal as too small 03/16/2021
Photo (c) Darwin Brandis - Getty ImagesPurdue Pharma, maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, has proposed paying a larger financial settlement to resolve numerous lawsuits against it that accuse the company of contributing to the opioid crisis in the U.S. In a filing in bankruptcy court, the company, largely controlled by the Sackler family, proposed a payment of $4.28 billion, an increase from the $3 billion in the original settlement proposal.
A number of states have filed lawsuits against the drugmaker and had dismissed the $3 billion settlement from the family offer as insufficient. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, representing one of the plaintiff states, was initially unimpressed with the new offer.
Battle lines are being redrawn in a First Amendment case on the Supreme Court’s docket. What started as a tussle between teenagers and adults is now a power struggle between