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As far as vaccines go mRNA is one of the least proven technologies out there. From what we've found with COVID-19, it won't stop viral transmission, and loses e
by oceanplexian 5y ago
As far as vaccines go mRNA is one of the least proven technologies out there. From what we've found with COVID-19, it won't stop viral transmission, and loses efficacy after a few short months. And HIV mutates about 500 times faster than COVID-19. The fact that the drug companies, who are financially vested in this technology claim it's a miracle cure for anything under the sun is not particularly surprising.
- heavyset_go 5y agoSome of the current HIV vaccines being tested right now work on the assumption that if they can elicit a certain antibody response from the immune system, it will produce specific antibodies that have been shown to work against HIV in humans. If you can design an mRNA vaccine that encodes those proteins directly, you won't have to design vaccines with the mere hope that the immune system will develop the right antibodies in response to them. From what I understand about HIV vaccines, finding the right inoculant that elicits the correct HIV eliminating antibody response is the hard part that mRNA vaccines might be able to tackle directly.