Posted on 04/01/2020 6:00:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I wonder if it would be possible by adjusting the dose, and/or the timing to allow the immune system to respond to the virus just enough to cause it to generate its own antibodies.
You can be sure that whatever Half Whitmer and the guv of Nevada took to keep hydroxychloroquine from their citizens that they kept a reserve for themselves and their families just in case.
The Dems only care about getting back in power.
That’s right ! The ACE2 receptors are on human lung cells. Their ‘conjugates’ (like a precise lock and key) are on the virus. If they come physically close together they will bind and the virus will enter the lung cells through this ‘open window’. So what do we do ? Prevent the binding from happening by sticking ‘antibodies’ on the binding sites of the virus. It’s like sprinkling powder on a post-it to prevent it from sticking. The powder is the antibodies.
It would be wise not to take Anything that he is involved in.
That’s a good question. But I doubt that it does because only vaccines train your own immune system. The article says that the antibody therapy only lasts for a few weeks. If it trained your immune system it would last for years.
“But I doubt that it does because only vaccines train your own immune system.”
The virus itself trains the immune system. All that a vaccine is is a sort of simulated virus, a relatively harmless virus look-alike that fools the immune system to think it’s the real thing.
If you can keep the virus from killing you by using the antibodies, but keeping enough of them around so the immune system gets sensitized to it, then you become immune. It would be like you taking a vaccine.
All the people that survive this virus will have done so because their immune system was able to manufacture antibodies fast enough and in sufficient quantities to destroy the invader. And my guess is that even the people that don’t survive might have built a certain level of resistance, but not enough to overcome the virus.
What I meant to say is that the antibody therapy itself won’t train your immune system.
But you’re right that if your own immune system learns to fight the virus while the antibodies are working on it you should develop immunity.
That’s unless the virus morphs and comes back in a 2nd wave, which is a concern of the CDC. The 1918 flu did that. The first wave was an average flu, the 2nd wave was a mass killer.
“That’s unless the virus morphs and comes back in a 2nd wave, which is a concern of the CDC. “
Then you can do the same thing again. There are always some people (usually the vast majority) that are successful at fighting off a virus, and you can use their antibodies to treat the ones that aren’t.
I think between the antibody treatments and the use of immunosuppressants like hydroxychloroquine to prevent the immune system itself from killing the patient by going crazy with cytokine storms, we may soon be able to get control of this pest and get most of the population immunized without waiting for a vaccine.
I also wonder whether a vaccine could also cause the immune system to overreact with a cytokine storm that ends up killing the patient. Remains to be seen.
“I also wonder whether a vaccine could also cause the immune system to overreact with a cytokine storm that ends up killing the patient. Remains to be seen.”
Don’t recall seeing anything about vaccines provoking cytokine storms. Although I did find this:
“Although the committee is not aware of reports of full-blown cytokine storm following administration of any of the vaccines reviewed, more subtle imbalances of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines may occur following immunization against rubella, human papillomavirus, or hepatitis”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK190017/
I have read about allergic reactions that end up killing the “patient”, a test animal, with that line of vaccine getting scrapped. That’s why the plan of skipping animal testing with a Covid vaccine is a risky idea.
The vaccine for the old SARS, didn’t it make people more susceptible to new viruses?
COVID-19 treatment ping.
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