In a turn of events characterized by profound irony, an outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, occurred at the 2023 Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) itself.
"I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions," said Kershaw. "I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion. So that’s something that I definitely don’t agree with."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an advisory stating that the United States remains in a "heightened threat environment" with "lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and personal grievances" posing a significant risk.
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."