State Sen. Caroline Menjivar of Burbank, who penned the bill, has proposed an extended interpretation of "infertility," defined as: “A person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention.”
"The conventional SARS-CoV-2 vaccine’s ability to provide immunological protection may be significantly impacted by over-vaccination. If this happens, either newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases or people who have already contracted the virus again may have a more severe case of the illness. This concept was proposed after seeing tolerance of both the humoral and cellular immune responses to prolonged booster immunization doses."
As the authors write, the advancement conjures a "complex ethical conundrum" because the genomic information captured "comes from individuals mostly unaware of the technology use and oblivious to the fact that their genetic information has been inadvertently obtained."
Originally published May 11, 2023 2:00 pm PDT
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