Oh, they found what they were looking for! Now the evil World Economic Forum types can go out and try to harvest the super-immune for the next step in their delusional quest for immortality! (Cue eeeevil laughter.) All it took was a few thousand (million? billion?) in collateral damage...

I'm not being serious. (Well, except for the part about WEF being evil and hurting people.)

I think other posters are right. This is just another NPR propaganda piece pushing the shot. I remember back when NPR wasn't completely awful, before Gates, Vanguard, Citibank and others were the big funders, but maybe my memory is just playing tricks on me.