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"an inverse vaccine"
Oh good, at least they didn't choose a name that's gonna cause confusion.
TIL you can wait until you have the disease to take the vaccine. So if my kid gets polio, I'll give them the vaccine then, but I don't want to risk anything bad happening so I'll wait. I'm glad I did my research.
Treatment. The word they are looking for is treatment.
I swear to god these research firms absolutely need to get ahead of how they refer to this shit publicly. People are way too dumb to just speak literally.
That naming does makes sense, given what the treatment does, although I agree they really need to work on their marketing and come up with a term that won't cause confusion or get the anti-vax folk excitable.
From the article:
It does make sense. And it is so so easy to get tangled.
"Inverse vaccine" sounds like instead of preventing a disease through a weakened or dead version of the thing you're preventing, they inject you with a stronger version of the thing you already have to kick it's ass.
"This body is spoken for."