Airlines are battling a scourge of passengers traveling with falsified Covid-19 health certificates,

[Demovictory9]

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Airlines are battling a scourge of passengers traveling with falsified Covid-19 health certificates, with test results easy to manipulate. Because of that, vaccine cards may be coming.

The documents are often the Covid-19 test results required by many countries on arrival. The International Air Transport Association industry body says it has tracked fake certificates in multiple countries, from France to Brazil, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Border control authorities and police forces have also reported arrests of people selling documents in the U.K., Spain, Indonesia and Zimbabwe, among others.

The problem is hitting international flights more than domestic ones, which typically don’t require certification at the moment. Airlines that are more dependent on cross-border travel, particularly those operating in Europe, are growing increasingly alarmed as they look to the summer, when they still hope demand will start to return.

The proliferation of fake health certificates is exposing a logistical blind spot, as airlines rush to navigate post-pandemic travel standards and retool their systems to ease compliance—and spur demand. Airlines say their staff aren’t equipped to handle and police all the new health certifications needed and worry the problem will be exacerbated when some countries also start to ask for vaccination certificates.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-covid-19-certificates-hit-airlines-which-now-have-to-police-them-11618330621?mod=e2tw

[bamagal62]

1. And, there's the problem.

If you have people that don’t believe. It sucks big time.

[Skittles]

2. NEEDS TO BE A FELONY

WTF

[Salviati]

7. It is a felony

They need to be arrested and charged for it

Vaccination record cards are intended to provide recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine with information about the type of vaccine they received, and when they may be able to receive a second dose of the vaccine. If you did not receive the vaccine, do not buy fake vaccine cards, do not make your own vaccine cards, and do not fill-in blank vaccination record cards with false information. By misrepresenting yourself as vaccinated when entering schools, mass transit, workplaces, gyms, or places of worship, you put yourself and others around you at risk of contracting COVID-19. Additionally, the unauthorized use of an official government agency's seal (such as HHS or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) is a crime, and may be punishable under Title 18 United States Code, Section 1017, and other applicable laws.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2021/PSA210330

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1017

[roamer65]

3. Needs to be just like the US passport card.

Swipe-able and accesses a central database, with lots of anti-counterfeiting features.

[Demovictory9]

4. takes time and resources to set up that system

[roamer65]

9. Needs to be done anyway.

ASAP. Priority on international flights.

[SergeStorms]

5. Which is exactly why...

you won't find my keester on an airplane anytime in the near future. I wanted to visit the U.K. this summer, but that's going to be postponed until the Corona virus calm down worldwide .

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

6. Even vaccinated people can carry the virus right?

No one in going to carry their "papers" with them. Once everyone who chooses to be is vaccinated, those who choose not to are choosing to be vulnerable, yes?

[Laffy Kat]

11. I keep trying to find out if immunized people can carry the virus.

Seems the studies are still pending. I've been fully vaccinated since January and I still wear a mask all day at work and when I leave my house. Until we know for sure, I'm not making any changes.

[Treefrog]

13. Immunized people can still get the virus, so I'd assume they can spread it.

It protects against SEVERE illness, but you can still get the virus.

[Mariana]

14. Link, please, to support this statement.

It protects against SEVERE illness, but you can still get the virus.

[Treefrog]

15. Have you never heard Fauci speak on this?

Here, since you apparently have no access to the internet. From the CDC site:

Studies show that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at keeping you from getting COVID-19. Getting a COVID-19 vaccine will also help keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19.

[Mariana]

19. You're making conflicting statements.

The overwhelming majority of those who receive the vaccine can't get Covid-19, and therefore they certainly can't spread it.

Studies show that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at keeping you from getting COVID-19.

[Treefrog]

20. Yes they CAN get it.

Good lord, do your own research. Or believe what you want. Bye.

[Treefrog]

16. Here is the actual link, but you'll find that the CDC is easily accessible with a computer machine.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/keythingstoknow.html?s_cid=10496:cdc%20guidelines%20for%20covid%20vaccine:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen TN:FY21

[uponit7771]

18. Yes. vaccination slows spread, hospitalization and death by 90% VERY good relative to ...

... past or even current vaccine numbers but not 5 - 10% can still get it.

I'm still wearing a mask, I don't want this shit in my system

[torius]

8. So people can fake health certificates

but not vaccine cards?

[Laffy Kat]

10. The other day I saw a stack of blank Covid vaccine cards just sitting on a nurse's desk..

In the clinic where I took my son for his booster. It would have been so easy for someone to lift those. I was shocked they weren't better secured.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. The guy in front of me for our 2nd shots...

... was also ahead of me for the 1st shot four weeks earlier (Moderna).

I remembered that he received a CDC card the first time because I wasn't really sure at the time if we'd get them, after reading posts here about some people never receiving them. So I was relieved when he received one, and I noticed that he was looking at his card for awhile too.

He didn't bring the card for the 2nd shot, and he immediately lied to the pharmacy that they never gave him one the first time!

So they gave him another card with both shots recorded on it, like I assumed would happen!

He could so easily fake the 1st card for someone else, like a family member, unless he actually lost it.

[Treefrog]

17. Yeah, when I got my first shot, I saw stacks of those just sitting on a table at CVS.

When I got my second one, I didn’t see them out again, so that’s a plus.