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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts) Tue May 19, 2020, 11:25 AM May 2020

Promising early results from coronavirus vaccine trial

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Promising early results from coronavirus vaccine trial (Original Post) yuiyoshida May 2020 OP

Can't you then just make a giant vat of antibodies and inject the antibodies to everyone? magicguido May 2020 #1

CV-19 survivors have come back to donate their plasma. IggleDuer May 2020 #2

magicguido

(6,315 posts)

1. Can't you then just make a giant vat of antibodies and inject the antibodies to everyone?

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Tue May 19, 2020, 12:14 PM

May 2020

IggleDuer

(964 posts)

2. CV-19 survivors have come back to donate their plasma.

Reply to magicguido (Reply #1)

Tue May 19, 2020, 01:19 PM

May 2020

One unit per patient. Getting a unit of plasma to each person would be a logistical nightmare. Possibly a gamma globulin collection could work too but the process would be overwhelming and would only give protection for a few weeks.

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