• piecat@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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