Question for Experts: What is the obstacle to cloning antibodies at sufficient scale to give everyone a shot of extra COVID-19 immunity? Is it an equipment shortage, red tape, funding issue, or what? Antibodies exist and cloning is current technology. What's the holdup?
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The dreaded "FALSE HOPE!!!




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Besides the risk to what's left of people's mental health by invoking cloning? Don't know :)
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Yes. Would a population-scale effort to use antibodies - which necessarily diverts resources, etc., away from other measures - be worth it? You have to prove it would be effective. Just like vaccines, it would take time. Injecting anyone with anything is risky.
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Probably the risk of antibody-dependent enhancement bedevils us, which is the same thing that bedevils vaccine testing. You don't want the "cure" to make infections even worse.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement …
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This work is still in the early stages. Just because the identified antibodies worked in vitro, still need POC that they work in humans - then you can consider scaling up - and biologics are much more expensive than small molecules like HCQ.
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And they don’t have to meet the same standards that medications do.
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Big fan of you and bought all your books. B cells recognize the virus and generate IgG that can confer protection against the virus. But the antibodies eventually will die out if they don’t have a pool of B cells to produce them. So injecting antibodies won’t give you a long term
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Immunity as we wish. Also proteins are much big than the DNAs that code these proteins. Purification of protein are more challenging and difficult to scale up. Usually ppl use bacteria to pack large amount of proteins bc bacteria can grow much faster but whether
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Safety questions similar to vaccines.
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