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by ketamine__ 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/world/australia/uq-coronavirus-vaccine-false-positive.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/world/australia/uq-corona...
> The use of the H.I.V. protein posed no risk of infecting the volunteers with that virus, the researchers said. But the clamp generated the production of antibodies recognized by H.I.V. tests at higher levels than the scientists had expected.
They thought it was a possibility.
- petertodd 6y agoThanks! I'll stress: that sounds like a perfectly reasonable approach to try, and they figured out the problem very early on, with very little harm actually done.