• @piecat
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    1 year ago

    Well, some vaccines are therapeutic in nature, where it’s beneficial to take it while you have symptoms. Some vaccines are only helpful before you get a symptom, for example rabies.

    I guess the above made it sound like there definitely can’t be a therapeutic vaccine. But unclear about a preventative vaccine.

    • @hamid
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      51 year ago

      Their point is AIDS is the syndrome you get after it is too late and your immune system no longer works. The vaccine would be for Human Immunodeficiency Virus