Pjcrafty t1_iylfwlh wrote on December 2, 2022 at 6:55 AM

Reply to comment by redrightreturning in Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study by tonymmorley

I was using he in the “gender neutral” sense, but you’re right that that’s fallen out of favor.

While I do apologize for misgendering you, I think that you could have made your point a bit more politely. That wouldn’t have been any skin off of your nose either.

Pjcrafty t1_iylaili wrote on December 2, 2022 at 5:51 AM

Reply to comment by TheGoodFight2015 in Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study by tonymmorley

He means that he got the highest dose of vaccine, so since it looked promising in general he may be immune since he got a big vaccine dosage.

The experimental group in a vaccine study isn’t exposed to what they’re vaccinating for. That would be extremely unethical.

They compare the vaccinated population to the unvaccinated control group in the population and see if the people who got vaccinated contract the virus at a lower rate.

So, for example, you vaccinate 10k people and have a control group of 10k people who get a placebo. Over the next 5 years, 100 people in the control group get HIV but only 2 people in the vaccine group do. That implies that the vaccine works, because ideally your control and test groups are similar enough that the only thing that makes them different is having the vaccine.