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The segment discusses actor Billy Porter's public announcement of his HIV status after 14 years. It features a 2019 Johnson & Johnson commercial where Porter promotes exploratory vaccine trials in Africa, leading the hosts to criticize the company's history and pharmaceutical motives.
In a 2007 interview with the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Anthony Fauci explains why an HIV vaccine has been elusive, citing the body's failure to produce an adequate immune response to "natural infection." The hosts fixate on his use of the term "natural infection," questioning what constitutes an "unnatural" one.
