Presenting Not Past It: The Vax That Got Axed

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today, we’re sharing an episode of a show we love: Not Past It. Did you know there was almost an AIDS vaccine? On June 3, 1998, AIDSVAX VAX004 reached the final stage of trials before widespread approval. Not Past It host Simone Polanen gets the facts on the vax and why it never made it to the masses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Wendy here.
0:01.9	The Science Versus team is hard at work
0:04.2	who's noting out for our next season of Science Versus,
0:06.8	which is gonna be back in your ears in September.
0:09.8	We are very excited.
0:11.5	But in the meantime, I wanted to get your ears
0:14.1	on this brand new Spotify podcast.
0:16.2	It's called Not Past It.
0:18.4	And it's a show about how these moments
0:20.6	in history shape our world today.
0:22.8	It's hosted by Simone Polanan and it's really wonderful.
0:26.6	And the episode we're gonna play today
0:28.3	is about the search for the HIV vaccine.
0:31.8	And the moment that I heard it,
0:33.8	I really wanted to share it with you guys
0:36.0	because it made me think about the COVID-19 vaccines
0:39.5	and how it was not at all inevitable
0:42.2	that we would have them so quickly.
0:44.6	All these things had to work out just right.
0:48.5	And with HIV, those things really didn't work out.
0:53.6	All right, let's jump right in.
0:55.8	This is not past it with Simone Polanan.
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