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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We've already spent three trillion dollars on fighting covid-19 in Congress is debating another 3 trillion dollars in spending because of it how much more expensive could this be compared to what we're doing now? Sometimes you just have to pick the least bad answer
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If the injected antibodies cleared the virus, would your body even generate its own? IDK. I'm an engineer. You need an immunologist.
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Half life of IgG is over 3 weeks. 1 shot should do the trick for the vast majority of people.
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Cloned ones, if they worked, would be administered as therapeutics in an attempt to neutralize and clear the virus - this is referred to as "passive immunization".
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