Man caught trying to use fake arm to get vaccine shot

An Italian man who attempted to use a fake arm to get a COVID-19 shot to circumvent vaccine mandates at public venues is facing charges. 

A health care worker administering the jab to the 50-year-old man at a vaccine site in the northern Piedmont region initially did not suspect the trick. But then she touched the arm, noticed something was amiss, and had the man remove his shirt, according to The Guardian.

“I felt offended as a professional,” Filippa Bua reportedly told La Repubblica. “The color of the arm made me suspicious and so I asked the man to uncover the rest of his left arm. It was well made but it wasn’t the same color.” 

“At first I thought I made a mistake, that it was a patient with an artificial arm,” she reportedly told La Stampa. 

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