Some college students buy fake vaccine cards to bypass the new coronavirus test

A professor at University of North Carolina On Monday in Chapel Hill, he said he had talked with students who knew where to buy fakes Coronavirus disease Vaccination card.

Benjamin Mason Meier says Twitter The post stated that every student he talked to knew a classmate who had used a fake card at the university.On Wednesday, he told Weekly newspaper Hearing this information initially made him worry that “personal actions may threaten the entire community.”

UNC-Chapel Hill students will return to campus within two weeks. When they do, they must present a copy of the vaccine card before returning to campus or taking weekly tests. However, Meier said that some students are looking for cheating systems.

Meier is Professor of Global Health Policy at UNC. On Monday, he tweeted that he had fake COVID-19 vaccine cards on campus.

He wrote that he had talked with “worried” students and “each of them” told him that they “know exactly how to buy” a fake card and “know a classmate who submitted a card to the university.”

He asked how the school will “respond to those who submit false medical information.”

say Weekly newspaper, Meyer elaborated. “I am worried that many students will get sick. The university will say ‘95% of our students are vaccinated.’ This will make people doubt the effectiveness of the vaccine, because it shows that we lack the ability to show who is not vaccinated,” he said.

Meyer also emphasized that he does not want to demonize the students of the University of North Carolina. Instead, he said, the problem is that “universities have not established sufficient accountability checks.”

Local National Broadcasting Corporation The affiliated radio station WRAL followed up with Meyer’s tweets by talking to some University of North Carolina students. Sophomore Simon Palmore said he overheard classmates talking about buying fake cards for sale on campus.

Palmore also said that these cards can sell for up to $200 each.

He told Lora Lavigne of WRAL: “Some students are willing to subvert university requirements and truly subvert their responsibilities to classmates to ensure everyone’s safety. This is really disturbing.”

“I think if there are vaccine requirements, universities will be forced to look at these vaccination cards more closely and verify that they are actually legal,” Palmor said.

On Wednesday, Jackie Pascale, a reporter for the NBC affiliate radio station WXII, introduced the progress of the story on Twitter. She wrote that the faculty and staff at the University of North Carolina “will promote mandatory vaccination on campus at a special meeting and stated that they believe that the requirement for testing is not enough.”

“I think we will move towards a more responsible system, but we haven’t done it yet,” Meyer said Weekly newspaper“The university’s entire reopening plan is based on what the students say. The university did not conduct the rigorous inspections required for this pandemic.”

Jonathan Sauls, UNC’s senior vice president for student success and management, provided WRAL with a statement on the matter.

“We believe our students will do the right thing, but for anyone who might consider falsifying information about their vaccination status, we have a simple message: no,” his statement said, according to WRAL.

“Providing false information about the status of vaccination violates the University’s Code of Honor and our COVID-19 community standards. Violations may result in disciplinary action up to suspension by the university,” Sauls said in a statement.

Weekly newspaper Contacted UNC for comments, but did not respond to publication in time.