Johnson & Johnson HIV vaccine trial fails
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/1/2021 9:11:58 AM
An HIV vaccine candidate manufactured by Johnson & Johnson failed to provide sufficient protection against infection, the company announced Tuesday, the latest blow to the HIV vaccination effort.(Snip)The study enrolled approximately 2,600 young women across five countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a region where women and girls accounted for 63 percent of all new HIV infections in 2020. Participants were randomly selected to receive either the vaccine or a placebo, and researchers found the vaccine's efficacy was only about 25 percent, which was not statistically significant. The investigational HIV vaccine was manufactured using a strain of common-cold virus engineered to not cause illness, the same basic technology
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An HIV vaccine using the same technology as their coronavirus vaccine left 75% of the subjects catching the HIV anyway. They forgot to claim that the vaccine works great, except that there's a new variant of HIV and more boosters are needed.