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HIV/AIDS vaccine: Why don't we have one after 37 years, when we have several for COVID-19 after a few months?

  • Written by Ronald C. Desrosiers, Professor of Pathology, Vice-chair for Research, University of Miami
HIV/AIDS vaccine: Why don't we have one after 37 years, when we have several for COVID-19 after a few months?A lab worker extracts DNA from samples for further tests at the AIDS Vaccine Design and Development Laboratory Dec. 1, 2008 in New York City. Chris Hondros/Getty Images

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