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by raylad 606 days ago
The references you provided are prescribing information and to other drugs which actually are anti-retroviral.

You did not provide any reference showing that cells that are actually infected but inhibited from producing virus through late stage assembly inhibitors are effectively eliminated by the immune system.

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> references you provided are prescribing information and to other drugs which actually are anti-retroviral

The first reference is for literally this drug.

> did not provide any reference showing that cells that are actually infected but inhibited from producing virus through late stage assembly inhibitors are effectively eliminated by the immune system

I did not because this is the normal function of the immune system. The extraordinary claim, yours, is that these cells will somehow get missed by the immune system.

Right. It’s prescribing information.

As per whether infected cells that don’t display any evidence of virus on their surfaces would somehow be detected and killed or would undergo apoptosis, that might happen but I don’t find any evidence that it does.