On 29/05/2020 4:29 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote: > TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A team of scientists at Taiwan's Chang Gung > University (CGU) has found a monoclonal antibody (mAb) that can > inhibit the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) by over 90 percent.
Monoclonal antibodies are not a silver bullet: At best they are a temporary solution until a vaccine is found. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/27/monoclonal-antibodies-for-the-coronavirus [...] a particularly interesting possibility is giving them to people who aren’t infected yet, as a preventative. If the antibodies are potent enough and long-lasting enough in circulation, they could provide sufficient protection for weeks or possibly up to several months (and this would take effect immediately upon injection, as opposed to the immunological time lag seen in vaccination). This will take some hard work and close observation to realize, and there could well be variability in the patient population that you’re dosing (i.e., some people might lose such protection faster than others). But until a reliable vaccine is deployed, it’s a very appealing idea – and if the various vaccine efforts underway run into trouble, it might be our only option for a while. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
