Imagine if they were this diligent in trying to find vaccines for HIV...
An HIV vaccine is a horse of a different color altogether (Because it is a retro virus that stores a copy of itself in your T cells themselves.)
At any rate Moderna has successfully tested a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19)
The first run was only on a few people. The next will be on a few hundred. If all goes well, we could have a vaccine by the first half of next year.
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