Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record
Rice bioengineer reveals dissolving microneedles that also embed fluorescent medical info
https://news.rice.edu/2019/12/18/quantum-dot-tattoos-hold-vaccination-record/
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Rice bioengineer reveals dissolving microneedles that also embed fluorescent medical info
https://news.rice.edu/2019/12/18/quantum-dot-tattoos-hold-vaccination-record/
Real life view
Big no to that too.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation came to us and said, ‘Hey, we have a real problem — knowing who’s vaccinated,’” said McHugh, who was recruited to join Rice with funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. “They said, ‘We go on vaccination campaigns where people get into Hummers, drive to a rural village, set up a tent and start immunizing people, but they don’t always know who’s been immunized before and what vaccines are still needed.”
Parents often don’t know their children’s vaccination histories, McHugh said. “So our idea was to put the record on the person,” he said. “This way, later on, people can scan over the area to see what vaccines have been administered and give only the ones still needed.
“There are two sides to this,” he said. “First, is that you don’t administer unnecessary vaccines, which has a cost. But even bigger, you don’t leave people underimmunized and at risk of getting an infectious disease.”
McHugh said the team worked with a bioethicist to be sure the patients’ data remains protected. “She said we’re on solid ethical ground as long as people can opt out, like getting the patch with only the vaccine. Also, the patch with quantum dots only contains information about the vaccine received. It doesn’t tell you anything else about the person.”
umm yeah...from Bill Gates the ultimate altruist/s.