Large protests are underway in Paris and many other cities in France against vaccine passports and mandatory vaccinations.

r/PublicFreakout • u/mouthofreason • Aug 07 '21

Large protests are underway in Paris and many other cities in France against vaccine passports and mandatory vaccinations. 😷Pandemic Freakout

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u/EmperorGeek Aug 07 '21

In the United States. There is a whole list of Vaccinations that are REQUIRED for school attendance.

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u/MostlySlime Aug 07 '21

I don't think any of those vaccines used a new technology and were the fastest vaccine to go into global distribution though. I'm not anti-vax, but it's not just another vaccine added to the list, business as usual

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u/vic06 Aug 08 '21

New technology??? CRISPR, the technology behind the Pfizer/BioNtec and Moderna vaccines, was first published in 1987. The first application proposing a role of CRISPR in immunity response was published in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

Mojica, F.J., Díez-Villaseñor, C., García-Martínez, J. et al. Intervening Sequences of Regularly Spaced Prokaryotic Repeats Derive from Foreign Genetic Elements. J Mol Evol 60, 174–182 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-004-0046-3

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Aug 08 '21

CRISPR

CRISPR () (which is an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of bacteriophages that had previously infected the prokaryote. They are used to detect and destroy DNA from similar bacteriophages during subsequent infections. Hence these sequences play a key role in the antiviral (i.

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