Thanks for the info. The VI mice have been around at least since 2008, so pre covid. Or were you talking about the non-mouse part of the monoclonals?
I plan to keep digging on this and hopefully find out where they got the human DNA for their mice. A lot of information to sift through.
They said “no fetal tissue”. I’ve wondered if companies use this phrasing instead of “no fetal DNA” as an end run around the ethics issue.
Anything is possible, but the fact is fetal tissue or DNA has no use in Covid treatments or probably any infectious disease treatment because they don’t have an immune system of their own yet. There would be no antibodies
They would have to be getting their b-cell dna from convalescent blood or plasma.
Also, there is no one type of VI mice. They produce them from manipulated mouse embryos for individualized research purposes for whatever disease they are developing antibodies for.