Posted on 09/06/2021 9:37:30 PM PDT by NoLibZone
It neutralized the coronavirus behind the first SARS outbreak, too.
newly discovered antibody was able to neutralize not only all strains of COVID-19, but other coronaviruses known to cause respiratory infections in humans — a potential silver bullet for a whole class of deadly, flu-like viruses.
Mutant viruses: As viruses spread, they undergo tiny genetic mutations, and when we find a unique version of the virus, we call it a new strain.
Occasionally, new strains appear that can spread more easily, evade the immune system, or cause more severe disease.
Several worrisome strains of COVID-19 have already appeared during the pandemic — including the Delta variant and, more recently, C.1.2 — and we’re sure to encounter more before it’s over.
Antibody drugs: Mutations in the coronavirus’s “spike protein” are particularly troubling. This protein is found on the outside of the virus, and it attaches to “receptor” spots on our cells to break in and destroy them.
Antibodies can bind to the spike to prevent them from attaching to cells, and researchers can turn particularly effective antibodies (discovered in COVID-19 survivors) into drugs, called monoclonal antibodies, to treat people battling infections.
“[The antibody] appears to neutralize all … coronaviruses that cause respiratory infections in mammals.”
JAY NIX The FDA has already authorized three such antibody drugs, but because the spike protein is mutating, the drugs that neutralize today’s strains of COVID-19 might not work on tomorrow’s.
The government has already pulled approval for one such drug, which no longer works against new variants when used by itself.
Targeting all strains of COVID-19: Now, an international research team has discovered a COVID-19 antibody with unprecedented neutralizing power.
“This antibody, which binds to a previously unknown site on the coronavirus spike protein, appears to neutralize all known sarbecoviruses — the genus of coronaviruses that cause respiratory infections in mammals,” researcher Jay Nix of UC Berkeley said in a press release.
“And, due to the unique binding site on [a] mutation-resistant part of the virus, it may well be more difficult for a new strain to escape,” he added.
Looking ahead: So far, the ability of this antibody, dubbed S2H97, to neutralize all strains of COVID-19 has only been tested in the lab — more research is needed to find out how effective it might be at treating people.
Tests in hamsters suggest it might be able to prevent COVID-19 infections, but again, that still needs to be proved in humans.
If the antibody is able to live up to the hype, though, it could be a powerful weapon against all strains of COVID-19 — as well as other deadly coronaviruses like SARS and any future coronavirus pandemics.
“This is therapeutic and not prophylactic.”
If one antibody is able to protect you from all the mutation (which this article implies), I would call that prophylactic.
In other words if a mutant strain comes along and you’ve already had this antibody shot, you are protected.
In reading the article, it seems that they have found a part of the spike protein that doesn’t mutate or is resistant to mutation, and so they’re developing an antibody that binds to that, so it will work with any new strain of the virus.
The current antibodies apparently bind to a part of the spike protein that mutates and thus becomes ineffective when mutations come along.
That’s what I got out of the article. Did you understand it differently?
As I see it we’re really in the experimental in all regarding covid viruses and any solutions about it. So until I’m convinced there’s an actual vaccine or preventive measure which has stood the test of time I’ll just keep on doing what I’ve been doing since it’s onset. Not going to live life afraid to go around the next corner because a bug might get me!
My daughter’s fiance contracted Covid19 about 3 days ago, and received monoclonal antibodies, Casirivimab and imdevimab, yesterday, at an outpatient infusion center. He had some kind of reaction, and passed out twice. When he came to, the second time, he was surrounded by several staff members, and was soaking wet. My daughter was not allowed to be with him during the infusion. She said the nurse told her she slowed down the infusion at that point. Hopefully, they can get some answers today. He really didn’t want to have the infusion, but we talked him into it, since with Covid19, it can be mild and then get much worse, requiring hospitalization, and we didn’t want THAT to happen. He is 36, and very fit, but smoked for years before quitting a couple of years ago, and is a very anxious person. I hope he feels much better, today, and has no further adverse effects.
You’ve nailed it. I have as much faith and trust in our Public Health leaders and elites as I have faith and trust in the Executive, Military, Foreign Policy and Intelligence leaders and elites who brought us the Fall of Kabul.
A lot of people do that anyway. It's marketed as "Coumodin" now.
Yeah forget the flu what can it do for the bio-weapons.?
Too late. They have burned through every scrap of credibility they possessed, and then they started digging.
Their decision to use a fake PCR test that can’t discern between influenza and Covid, let alone ‘variants’ gives the game away.
Variants are only l% to 2% different from Covid - anyone who has been exposed in the past or gotten ill from similar corona viruses, including Covid, should be immune to all the variants.
Dr. Yeadon described a test - a researcher located those who had recovered from SARS1 in 2003 and tested them with SARS again, in 2021. After 17 years, they still retained their immunity.
The researcher then tested those same people with Covid, and they were immune because there is only a 22% difference between SARS1 (2003) and SARS2 (Covid). The body recognizes it.
The whole plandemic was based on the lie that the entire human population had never been exposed to Covid before because it was supposedly a ‘novel’ virus (hence, no immunity to it). therefore out came all the excuses to crush the economy, install mail-in voting etc. But it was never true. SARS and Covid had been patented and the human population has been dealing with similar coronaviruses for a long time -most of us had SOME immunity to it.
The vulnerable needed help, as always, but were denied all medication, and that created an exaggerated number of deaths in the plandemic.
So unless they want to come out an start admitting to all their lies, I’m not going to believe what they tell me. So far, they deny all the vaccine harm. All of it. They deny Ivermectin and HCQ works - completely deny it. They pretend the PCR diagnoses disease - it does not.
The whole thing is a lie and I don’t care if they build a second story on their house of cards - I won’t beleive them.
Great post.
Everyone should see it.
Those who constantly lie should never be trusted from the very top of govt. to the very bottom.
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We just had one of our county commissioners die while on the respirator. He supposedly did everything right but could not get off the respirator after numerous trys. I think I would rather die than get on one myself.
I think respirators make a bad case worse.
Discoveries like this happened every few weeks or months during the AIDS/HIV peaks during the 1980s and 1990s. They never went anywhere. There is a huge distance to go between lab experiments on animals to a working treatment in humans.
Have a friend that took the injection a few weeks ago. Has been out of work since, now has a clot in her jugular and severe headaches which are probably caused by the micro clots in her brain.
IMO infusion was the proper action to take.
When this all shakes out, and it will. Many will go to prison and some will be hung deservedly so just like those Nazi doctors were at Nuremberg.
So this needs further studies before it enters the human population but the vax doesnt
“We just had one of our county commissioners die while on the respirator”
Probably was on remdesivir also which is toxic.
You are so childlike in your belief that there will be a "HAPPY ENDING" to this or any other deception played on the people.
I bet you still think Hillary will be held to account for mishandling of classified information.
I bet you still think someone will be held to account for the false Trump/Russia FISA warrants and years of hearings.
I bet you think Hunter Biden will face justice for the crimes on his laptop and the firearm he never should have possessed.
I bet you think the election fraud will be revealed and Trump installed overnight as POTUS.
I envy you....it must be nice to live in a fantasy world.
antibody
a condition that starts at about 45 years of age
There is his cause.
Rat poison is OK as medicine but horse de-wormer is verboten.
Sorry Rod, my #39 was for SeeSharp not you
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