These antibodies, why aren't they being considered the greatest invention since vaccines, themselves? Or, maybe even better than the invention of vaccines, since you don't have to wait a year for them to be developed.
You take the blood plasma from someone who has had the coronavirus and conquered it, and transfuse it into someone else, and -- bang -- that person is now immune to COVID-19. All the immunities they built up while battling the virus are transferred to the other person.
Well, isn't that the way it works?
I suppose if it were, we would be hearing about it. We have heard some about antibodies being used to treat patients who have COVID-19, but I don't know that we've heard of anyone receiving them as a vaccination.
Why not? Why would this not work as a vaccination? If one person while fighting off the coronavirus has developed the immunities and you have identified the antibodies and can extract them from him and transfuse them into another person, why would it not be a perfect vaccination?
I'm lost.
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