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Google PlayA 60-year-old man in Germany allegedly received roughly 90 COVID-19 vaccines just to sell vaccination cards.
The man, whose name has not been released, reportedly got his COVID-19 vaccination shots in the eastern state of Saxony, CBS News writes. This transpired “for months” until he was confronted by police over his ploy to sell the cards, which included authentic vaccine batch numbers, per German news agency dpa.
Found with blank cards on him, the suspect is now being investigated for document forgery and unauthorized issuance of proof of vaccination. He was caught after showing up two days in a row for a vaccine at the same location in Eilenburg. His reported 90 shots were from various brands, and CBS notes it’s still unclear what impact this endeavor had on his health.
Also in Germany, which has registered 130,029 COVID-19 deaths overall, experts think the BA.2 omicron subvariant may have peaked, as Sunday saw 74,053 new COVID-19 infections, compared to 111,224 daily infections earlier in the week. Students are no longer required to wear masks in most schools in Germany, a change that has seen pushback from teachers’ associations, per CBS.
“There is now a danger that, on the one hand, children who wear masks will be teased by classmates as wimps and overprotective or, on the other hand, pressure will be exerted on non-mask wearers,” Heinz-Peter Meidinger, the president of the German Teachers’ Association, told dpa.
In the U.S., the Biden administration has been sued by 21 state Attorney Generals over continuing a mask mandate on planes and public transportation. The AGs are claiming the mandates—which come recommended by the CDC—count as federal overreach. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis complained that if “politicians and celebrities can attend the Super Bowl unmasked, every U.S. citizen should have the right to fly unmasked.”
A TSA statement reads that “revised framework” for mask mandates “will be based on the COVID-19 community levels, risk of new variants, national data and the latest science.”
