Call it a draw.
Your headline says Fauci: and since COVID is in the news, I jumped the gun in assuming it was about COVID.
However, the text link you gave quotes Dr. David Baltimore, not Fauci.
And talking about HIV.
Perhaps clarification in your headline...?
Because the “after 12 years” was a hypothetical, what do they do if in the 12th year of a trial, all hell breaks loose. It was not a belated confession that “12 years after a vaccines is widely distributed, all hell WILL break loose”.
Fair enough?
After giving a lot of thought to the rapid development of Covid vaccines, I started wondering why Fauci and company never succeeded in developing an AIDs vaccine. Suddenly I had a horrible thought. What if a decision was made that it was much more profitable to treat HIV daily for a lifetime with multiple medications, than to develop a successful vaccine that might only be needed once every 10 years or more like polio, shingles, pneumonia vaccines, etc. Are Fouci and his Big Pharma buddies really that evil??? I’m afraid the answer might be YES.