Medical Economics April 10, 2024
Posts claim COVID-19 vaccines cause HIV
Even though vaccines are safe and essential, they have long been a hot-button topic for conspiracy theorists. Tensions were especially high during and after the COVID-19 pandemic when the COVID-19 vaccine sparked nationwide debates on vaccine safety. These have cooled but not gone away, as evidenced by the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Although there is currently no vaccine against HIV, scientists have been working for the past three decades to develop one. The recent success of messenger RNA (mRNA) in COVID-19 vaccines has led scientists to adopt it for HIV vaccine development.
This connection and potential advancement in HIV prevention has caused skeptics to flock to social media, where vaccine discussion...
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