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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by teknopaul on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:29PM (#28211698)
Government reaction to case spikes does not reflect at all on the efficiency of vaccines. Vaccines don't stop you getting a disease they prepare your immune system for it, so when it happens you are more likely to survive.

Seems to me Spanish government bodies (where I live) look at headline case rates and then start making bizarre rules without talking to the scientists.

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by Amarok on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:16PM (#28217106)
The vaccine could have stopped the disease if they'd opted for IgA immunity instead of IgG. That means getting drops in your nose rather than a jab, so that immmune cells are activated in the mucosas rather than in the blood. Right now someone who's been vaccinated can continue to replicate and transmite the virus from the glial cells in the nose mucosa, because the immune cells there haven't been trained to fight the virus.
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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by jmnicolas on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:40PM (#28211860)
> Government reaction to case spikes does not reflect at all on the efficiency of vaccines.

Living in France I can agree on that.

Yet vaccinated people are still having severe problems up to dying from COVID.

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