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HIV has been a challenging virus and the development of a vaccine has been very difficult although other means of prevention are available However when we compare this to Covid the Covid vaccine has been an amazing and remarkable accomplishment What reason do you think best explains the difference for why HIV has been more a much greater challenge for scientists to develop a universally effective vaccine We discussed the basis of this HIV challenge in class Covid can be targeted with antibiotics while HIV cannot HIV rarely mutates and this makes it harder to develop an effective vaccine HIV is a retrovirus Covid is of bacterial origin and therefore easier to develop a vaccine

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