It's surprising at this point that more people haven't been busted for writing up fake vax cards. Maybe there are tons of people doing it and they're just not getting caught.
The same can't be said for these two unfortunate health care professionals:
Two Long Island healthcare workers were busted for allegedly forging COVID-19 vaccination cards in a cash injection scheme that raked in over $1.5 million, according to officials and reports...
The women allegedly ran the scam from November 2021 until this month, out of Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, which is owned and operated by DeVuono, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office told NBC 4.
November 2021 to "this month" is, like, two months. They pulled down $1.5 million in two months?
I mean, surely they must have been charging a ton of money for each vax passport, right?
Julie DeVuono, a 49-year-old nurse practitioner, and Marissa Urraro, a 44-year old licensed practical nurse, are accused [of charging] $220 for fake cards for adults and $85 for children, the Suffolk County Police Department said Friday.
Ummmm...
Okay, time for a little math.
Suppose the number of adult/child fake vax cards they sold was a clean 50/50 split, right down the middle: Half of the fake cards went to adults and half to children.
That means they sold about 8800 fake child vax cards and about 3400 for adults.
Even if the split were, say, 75/25 adult/child, that's still 5113 cards for adults and 4400 cards for children.
Any way you slice it, it is...a lot of cards.
