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.