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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by mpalczewski on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:15PM (#30152713)
We get a new flu vaccine every year, is this much different?
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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by driverdan on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:36PM (#30153081)
Yes. It takes a long time to generate the flu vaccine. The strains need to be selected long before the season starts so it's a bit of guess work. That's why effectiveness varies from year to year. mRNA vaccines can be produced in high volumes much faster than traditional vaccines. It would allow the flu vaccine strains to be selected at a better time.
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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by trompetenaccoun on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:25PM (#30156937)
Works great with the sars-cov-2 vaccine so far. That's why there are fewer symptomatic infections since the vaccines are out. /s
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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by selcuka on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:22PM (#30157834)
Why the /s? I don't think there is a sure way to estimate what the number of total symptomatic infections would be if there weren't any vaccines, but the fact that unvaccinated are overrepresented in case statistics indicate that the vaccines are working as expected.
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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by driverdan on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:23PM (#30157837)
There are far fewer symptomatic infections and deaths than there would have been otherwise.
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