Dr. Raul Pino, the health administrator in Orlando, Fla., said that two young women "dressed up as grannies" tried to get their second coronavirus vaccine doses on Wednesday. They wore bonnets, gloves and glasses, he said: "I don't know how they escaped the first time."
The women were probably in their 20s, Pino said. They had valid CDC vaccination cards, but "there were some issues with their ID's" and driver's licenses.
There have been a "few" cases of people faking vaccine eligibility, Pino said, including one man who shared a name with his father: "It's probably higher than we suspect."
"Our job as a health department is to vaccinate as many people as possible as fast as possible," Pino said, adding that the department follow's the governor's guidance, which is based on modified CDC guidelines.
(Needless to say: If you are one of these ladies and would like to share your story, my email is in the bio!)
The Florida vaccine "grannies," in story form: nytimes.com/live/2021/02/1…
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