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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by et2o on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:34PM (#30157010)
There is no data that supports this assertion whatsoever. There is a lot of evidence going against it. Theoretically it may be possible, but the probability of this is on the order of 0 and so close to 0 it will likely never happen.

Think of it like chemistry. Sure, two covalently bonded hydrogen atoms at STP could have nuclei 1cm from each other due to random chance. However, the probability of this happening is so low that it is effectively 0.

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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by hashimotonomora on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:34PM (#30157520)
The assertion is still false then.
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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by mlyle on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:32PM (#30158312)
It's effectively true.

If one bounds the risk from HIV from an undetectable partner to an unmeasurably small epsilon, dwarfed by other risks by many orders of magnitude--- the edges where the assertion are false don't matter.

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