“We need to make them have longer duration, more coverage…And we’re gonna change, instead of using a needle, to use a little patch.” Referencing future Covid vaccines, Bill Gates made this comment while appearing on CNBC TV18 as part of the World Economic Forum’s live streaming event. Speaking about AI, tech and healthcare, he stressed that this type of innovation could increase vaccine uptake and make the vaccination process much simpler, quicker and easier.

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This announcement comes amid a worldwide outcry highlighting the widespread damage and death that the Covid vaccines have caused. Despite the evidence, the vaccine industry continues moving forward, determined to increase confidence in their products.

In November 2023, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $23.6 million to a U.S. based company called Micron Biomedical. With the funds, Micron will build a manufacturing facility which will mass-produce a measles-rubella vaccine for developing countries. If successful, however, this type of technology could be used to deliver other vaccines as well.

Speed and Convenience with the Touch of a Button

A graphic on Micron Biomedical’s website shows how the new technology will work. “Micron’s ‘peel and stick’ microarray technology is applied to the skin and allows for self-administration of pharmaceuticals by pressing a button. Vaccines and medicines are delivered within seconds to minutes.”

Micron adds that that their technology is not only painless, but also lightweight and thermostable, allowing it to overcome or minimize certain barriers such as refrigeration and storage. Vaccines can be given “at home, in the field, and wherever they are needed–all with the touch of a button.”

A quote posted on Micron’s homepage explains, “You don’t need a trained healthcare worker to administer the vaccine. You eliminate the fear factor, the risk of blood and body fluids from the needle. For the person administering it, you don’t have medical waste like you do with a syringe and needle.” According to the company, all of this will “address vaccine hesitancy and improve patient compliance.”

The words hesitancy and compliance bring back memories of unlawful Covid vaccine mandates which resulted in the loss of jobs and livelihoods. Warp speed took precedence over informed consent and safety. Vaccine patches (microarrays) are being touted as ways to improve uptake, but this does not rectify the original problems which caused the public to lose confidence in the first place.

Micron isn’t the only company working on this kind of vaccine technology. In January 2023, CEPI (the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation) announced they signed a partnership agreement with an Australian based company known as Vaxxas. Their needle-free vaccine-patch delivery technology uses a “high-density array of microprojections” that are invisible to the human eye. “The patch rapidly delivers vaccine to the abundant immune cells that are naturally present immediately below the skin surface.” Like Micron, they claim these patches are so easy to use that they could someday be mailed directly to people’s homes, workplaces or schools.

Vaccine Patches Could Be Used for All Kinds of Diseases

In November 2023, the company announced they had completed a Phase 1 clinical trial for a measles and rubella vaccine which used their microarray patch. But with continued funding, Vaxxas hopes to expand the clinical pipeline, which could include vaccines for Covid-19, influenza and typhoid. Vaxxas is forging collaborations with organizations and companies such as Merck, the United States Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in order to target infectious diseases and cancer.

Vaxxas and Micron’s partnerships are troubling as some of these same organizations  grossly mishandled the Covid pandemic.

Vaccines on Demand

While companies like Micron and Vaxxas work on their microneedle patches, researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are designing mobile printers that can be used to produce hundreds of vaccine doses per day. “We can someday have on-demand vaccine production,” says Ana Jaklenec, a scientist at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. The printer can create patches with hundreds of microneedles which contain a particular vaccine. To demonstrate this, in April 2023 the MIT researchers published a study where they showed that a printer could be used to produce Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. Before Covid, they envisioned deploying vaccines for highly infectious diseases like Ebola, where they could be shipped to refugee camps, military bases, and remote villages. Now they believe they can apply the technology to a myriad of diseases, viruses and even cancer.

Microneedle Patch Technology Can Store Vaccination Records

MIT has developed other technologies that could be used with microneedle patches. Back in 2019, a team of bioengineers developed a way to “keep invisible vaccine records under the skin.” Using a microneedle patch, “biocompatible quantum dots embed in the skin and fluoresce under near-infrared light–creating a glowing trace that can be detected at least five years after vaccination.” The study appeared in Science Translational Medicine, listing Ana Jaklenec, the same scientist who worked on printable vaccine patches. According to MIT, this quantum dot technology is still in the “experimental stage” and is targeted for patients in parts of the world where vaccination records aren’t available.

The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry was given to several scientists for their discovery and synthesis of quantum dots, which can be used for a variety of applications, from detecting tumors and infectious diseases to building quantum computers. This same year, the Nobel prize in medicine (physiology) was given to two biochemists for their part in the development of mRNA vaccines.

Warnings from vaccine funders about  deadlier pandemics to come raises questions about what surveillance and control will be mandated in the future.

In light of the voluminous reports of injury and death, shouldn’t the scientific and medical community be calling for a moratorium on mRNA vaccines? Doesn’t it stand to reason that open dialogue and thorough, fair investigations must happen in order for any kind of trust to be restored?

What can intercessors Do?

It is certainly possible that we will face future pandemics. Now is the time to be praying about technologies such as vaccine patches which are already in the works, and could be used in the future. It’s important to pray for leaders in the medical/scientific community and government who have the authority to halt unsafe vaccines and require adequate evaluation of new devices, treatments, and vaccine methods.

What are your thoughts about vaccine patch technology? Do you think this is a good idea?   

Angela Rodriguez is an author, blogger and homeschooling Mom who studies the historical and biblical connections between Israel and the United States. You can visit her blogs at 67owls.com and 100trumpets.com. She is also the author of Psalm 91: Under the Wings of Jesus, and her first children’s book, Hallelujah’s Great Ride, was just released in September 2023. Photo Credit: Kzenon/Canva Pro and AndreyPopov/Getty Images via Canva Pro.