Given the track record of the COVID vaccines (take a look at current Israel stats) I'm not optimistic about an HIV vaccine.
HIV has decades of study and literature behind it, so why not be more optimistic about the prospects for progress?
>Israel reinstates some virus restrictions to avoid a full lockdown.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/world/israel-covid-restri...
Sorry it's a paywall but the title is enough. Doesn't scream vaccine efficacy to me since they are in the top vaccinated country list.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-brea...
Seems to me Spanish government bodies (where I live) look at headline case rates and then start making bizarre rules without talking to the scientists.
Living in France I can agree on that.
Yet vaccinated people are still having severe problems up to dying from COVID.
They're also not at 80% of the full population; most of the vaccination percentages you see batted around are in adults only, because most countries have vaccinated 0% of their under-12s.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-644288348135
> Israel has a population of approximately 9.3 million people, of which more than 60% are fully vaccinated, according toJuly 21 numbers from the online scientific publication, Our World In Data. The country has had one of the swiftest vaccine rollouts in the world. By February, 80% of those over 60 had already received shots.
Polio and measles vaccines are not even sterilising. It is much more realistic to achieve herd immunity with vaccines than it is to create a sterilising vaccine.
Delta is one of the most transmissive and dangerous viruses in history. Many times worse than previous strains of COVID. Delta has the capability of burning through communities even with relatively high vaccine coverage. We are dealing with a historically dangerous strain!
And despite this, daily deaths are significantly lower per capita than previous outbreaks in Isreal despite daily case loads being already as high as previous outbreaks.
If anything, what's happening in Isreal is an indicator that not only are vaccines working, but they are working well. Even as efficacy has reduced over time.
And lastly, efficacy of a COVID vaccine feels kinda orthogonal to efficacy of an HIV vaccine, no?
Edit. I’m not completely happy with that source so here’s at least one paper I found:
> Delta is one of the most transmissive and dangerous viruses in history. Many times worse than previous strains of COVID.
You have a perfectly sensible comment, you're already downvoted as if you said the earth is flat.
Very disappointing.
That's because you're drawing conclusions from data that are not that far off from "the earth is flat".
Remember: the UK released most of its restrictions, including masks and lockdowns in a so-called "freedom day". Experts said the country was performing a dangerous experiment on the entire world. Cases started plunging just three days later. To compare people pointing out the proven, beyond any doubt unreliability of claims about COVID to flat earthers shows just how ideological and blind this whole thing has become.
Yes, I agree that COVID denialism and antivax feelings are this way. :)
So you're confirming what I said? "Last year" isn't "recently", meaning the current rise has nothing to do with dropping restrictions.
More than anything else it looks like it's fully seasonal, with timing of the the drops and rises this year matching last year pretty closely regardless of restrictions.
honestly if you weren't on the internet you'd just be that weird guy at the bar spouting conspiracy theories and blaming the "man" but instead you're here on an international forum doing the same with the same "weight" as some industry titans and other thought leaders.