And they independently, private from us, isolated in privacy, sworn to secrecy, review the data every six months. The results of the trial will not be known until the fall of 2001 at the earliest. For the FDA to license the vaccine, it must be shown to prevent HIV from occurring in at least 30 percent of all recipients. But Francis hopes to some day eradicate AIDS in the same way he did small pox. And if gp120 fails, he will continue his search.
Science is a pursuit of the truth.
And negative answers are still steps up that ladder to understanding.