It’s sad that we have to say this, but more and more, we are having to watch out for fake vaccination schemes that put our communities at risk for outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.
While news of the Jeanette Breen’s fake vaccination scheme likely has lots of people surprised, they will likely be even more surprised to know that she just one of many people to have gotten caught in recent years.
Fake Vaccination Schemes
An even bigger surprise?
“The first case of falsification of a vaccine was documented in 1995. While a new epidemic of group A meningococcal cerebrospinal meningitis was spreading in Niger, an emergency vaccination campaign was put together to break the epidemic curve.”
The scourge of vaccine falsification
Fake vaccination schemes actually aren’t new.
Fake vaccination schemes have also been found in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Uganda, and in the Philippines in recent years. Tragically, in many of these cases, people likely thought they were getting real vaccines and not fakes.
This is very different than the current fake vaccination schemes that some people are using to try and bypass vaccination requirements for work, travel, or to attend school.
In addition to Jeanette Breen, others caught providing fake vaccination records include:
- Juli A. Mazi, a naturopathic doctor in California whose fake vaccination scheme involved selling homeopathic vaccine pellets for COVID-19 (which she claimed gave life-long immunity) and childhood immunizations and falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and California school immunization cards. She received a sentence of 33 months in prison.
- Jason Costanza, Jaimi Jansen (got probation), and Ranna Shamiya (got probation) are also being prosecuted in Juli Mazi’s fake vaccination scheme.
- Julie DeVuono, a pediatric nurse practioner in New York made made millions forging COVID-19 vaccination cards and uploading false vaccination information to the New York State Immunization Information System (NYSIIS). She “agreed to forfeit criminal proceeds totaling the sum of $1,252,540.63” and surrendered her professional licenses as a Nurse Practitioner and a Registered Professional Nurse.
- at least 82 NYC teachers were suspended without pay for submitting the fake immunization cards from Julie DeVouno, although some were allowed to go back to work
- Jasmine Clifford and Nadayza Barkley sold forged COVID-19 vaccination cards and entered names of people who had not gotten a real COVID-19 vaccine into New York State Immunization Information System database
- Tangtang Zhao, a pharmacist in Chicago, sold blank COVID vaccination cards to people who were not vaccinated.
- Colleen Brungard was charged with making fake COVID-19 vaccination cards
- Tricia Manno was charged with submitting a forged COVID-19 vaccination card to her school
- Todd Anderson was arrested for selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards out of his bar in California
- Dr. Michael Kirk Moore Jr., a plastic surgeon in Utah, and three others, have been charged with destroying COVID-19 vaccines, giving some children saline shots, and selling at least 1,937 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards
- Robert Van Camp made and sold hundreds of false and fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to unvaccinated people
- Steven Rodriguez, a nurse at a clinic in New York, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for distributing fake COVID-19 vaccination cards and entering false information into the New York State Immunization Registry
- Nicholas Frank Sciotto and Kyle Blake Burbage sold at least 120,000 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards online
- Lisa Hammell (a postal worker in New Jersey) sold at least 400 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards that she made herself. She said that she was ‘Making fakessssss. Graphic design degree paying off”
- Linda Tufui Toli was given probation for providing travelers with negative COVID-19 test results
- Keishaun Edward Todd (Texas) was charged with selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards
- Dr Mary Kelly Sutton lost her medical license in California, New York, and Massachusetts for issuing unnecessary vaccine medical exemptions, another type of fake vaccination scheme
- Dr Kenneth Stoller lost his medical license in California and New Mexico for selling unnecessary vaccine medical exemptions
- Dr Bob Sears received probation again for writing fake medical exemptions
Of note, folks are getting caught and are getting in trouble both for making and using fake vaccination cards.
In many of these cases, we will still have to wait to see just how much trouble they are in.
We already know how much trouble they caused, as all of those folks who didn’t get vaccinated and were left unprotected could have gotten sick and led to other people getting sick, including those who are too young to be vaccinated or who have a true contraindication to getting a vaccine.
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