Nurse Charged With Creating Fake Vaccine Card for Relative With 'Anti-Vaccination Beliefs'

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A nurse will be the first person in South Carolina to face federal criminal charges after making a fake vaccine card for her relative, according to the Associated Press.

Tammy McDonald, a registered nurse and the director of nursing at a health center in Columbia, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. She is accused of making a false vaccination card for a relative who holds "anti-vaccination beliefs" and then lying to government officials when asked about it. She was indicted by a federal grand jury on the case in November.

According to The State, creating a fraudulent government-issued vaccine card could result in a maximum of fifteen years in prison. Lying to a federal agent also carries a maximum five-year sentence. Due to McDonald's clean track record, it is unlikely that she will carry these maximum sentences, potentially settling for probation instead.

McDonald's place of work and the relative that she made the card for have not been released to the public.

https://www.newsweek.com/nurse-charged-creating-fake-vaccine-card-relative-anti-vaccination-beliefs-1655591

[RockRaven]

1. I hope this is an indication that the feds will find and prosecute Antonio Brown's supplier too...

I won't hold my breath, though.

[Skittles]

2. she should lose her nursing license

absolutely disgusting, criminal behavior

and how is she not a danger to society when she is actively trying to sabotage efforts to END A PANDEMIC

[Walleye]

3. Do you think her relative with anti-vaccine beliefs and do her time in jail for her

[keithbvadu2]

4. The kind of nurse that would steal your meds and substitute sugar pills.

The kind of nurse that would steal your meds and substitute sugar pills.

[70sEraVet]

5. Prosecutors need to start going after those 15 year sentences.

A crime like that DURING AN EPIDEMIC should not be treated lightly.
The 15 year maximum sentence, after all, is just just for committing the fraud. But the fact that the fraud was committed in order to allow someone to potentially spread a disease during an epidemic, should be a factor in asking for the maximum sentence.