Posted on 07/20/2021 10:06:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
It is a search that has so far eluded scientists for 40 years: Finding a safe and effective vaccine to protect people from HIV.
Not a single HIV vaccine has made it beyond Phase III clinical testing in 37 years of research. In comparison to COVID-19, that timeline seems baffling.
Over the last 18 months, more than 32 COVID vaccines have made it to Phase III clinical trials, eight have so far been approved and manufactured, and another 90 are in the Phase I and II pipeline.
“When there’s the political will, there is funding and resources,” said Hendrik Streeck, virologist and director of the German Center of HIV & AIDS. “And that means there’s the ability to be much faster,” he told DW. […]
Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which is a very stable virus, the human immunosuppressive virus (HIV) is extremely variable — it’s constantly mutating. That makes it very difficult for HIV-infected people’s immune systems to make the right antibodies to fend off the virus, as it’s usually a step ahead of any response in the body. There are thousands upon thousands of HIV strains circulating in the global population. The HIV genome also integrates into the body’s DNA, effectively making itself invisible to the immune system.
These characteristics mean our bodies don’t usually mount an effective immune response to HIV.
They also make it very difficult to design a broadly effective vaccine. …
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Nope, because the COVID vaccines are garbage hastily made in less than a year where normal vaccines take a few years and are tested and approved by the FDA.
Oh! foolish people.
When will you call it what it is???
Not a vaccine!
Its an injection.
Since vaccines don’t have to actually work, they can bring one out immediately.
Just calling it what they are calling it; I call it a genetic modifier.
Correct. Let's just throw something out there for the HIV crowd and run some ads shaming any homosexuals who refuse to take it.
The mRNA technology was used to try to create a vaccine for HIV, Hep C, and other Coronaviruses. It never worked. The animals developed antibodies, but sickened or died when exposed to the virus they were vaccinated against.
No improvements were reported before they used the same technology to create the Covid-19 vaccines. :(
Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which is a very stable virus...
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...except for all the variants
Why would resources be used to develop a vaccine for a preventable condition like HIV? Just askin.
Maybe they will work just as well with the same side effects. Wouldn’t that be great?
What could be better?
I’m still thinking.
HIV mutates so much....if one cultures one particular strain in a viral culture medium...there will be a different strain rapidly. It mutates so fast, the researcher cannot study a specific strain. Presumably the reason for rapid speciation is that the virus genome doesn’t code for correction enzymes which correct most mutations. Covid 19 ain’t that fast.
Freegards.
See my tagline.
Innocent people contract HIV.
They’re not all homosexuals having anal sex.
Funny how the liberal media is quiet on that, and only imply that any vaccine must be primarily for male homosexuals and not recipients of virus-tainted blood transfusions (meanwhile, bans on homosexual men with respect to donating possibly tainted blood are being forcibly overturned) or junkies who share needles.
Oh indeed. One variant is conquered and another rises up to terrorize us . . .
Apart from the infants of the infected, there are no innocents.
They're trying to do the same thing with the China virus shots and "boosters" ... same marketing formula. Don't doubt me on this. I've seen this before having spent a decade in advertising at Leo Burnett here in Shitcago.
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