Posted on 03/19/2020 10:02:06 PM PDT by libh8er
.."What my company is doing is adapting antibodies to recognize and neutralize the novel coronavirus. So this would ... [be] sort of skipping what a vaccine does," Glanville said. "Instead of giving you a vaccine and waiting for it to produce an immune response, we just give you those antibodies right away. And so within about 20 minutes, that patient has the ability to neutralize the virus."
Glanville told MacCallum that once his colleagues are done engineering the antibodies they will send it to the U.S. military before eventually conducting a human study this summer.
"The completed drug is going to go to the USAMRIID [United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases]. So that's the U.S. military and they're gonna be testing it for its ability to neutralize the virus.
"At the same time, that drug was going to go to Charles River Laboratories, which is a international contract research group, which is going to test the safety of that drug," Glanville said. "Both of those pieces of information come together so that we can produce batches, go through some red tape, and then do the first human studies that we'll do on 200 to 600 people in the summer, probably in July."
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That's a pretty cool concept. Surprising no one has tried it before.
$1,000 per treatment per day will probably be a bargain for this. You have to harvest the antibodies from serum, run shitloads of tests and treat the product so you don’t give people Hepatitis or AIDS, then distribute, administer. Each product will be touched by a chain of people who make more than minimum wage. If they are serious about doing this that is very interesting information.
L8r
It’s done all the time and has been for years. Ever hear of the “gamma globulin” shot you had to get to go overseas so you didn’t get Hep A. That’s been done for a long time and is less expensive because it’s been done for decades.
The specific treatment of course is new but the technology of Monoclonal Antibodies has been around for awhile.
I thought about that, but this seems to be step above in just providing the “good stuff”.
It sounds like an an incremental innovation allowed by some new tech.
Just guessing but Hep A patients must produce a crap ton of gamma globulin for quite a while. I hear virus patients only do so briefly and probably not as vigorously as Hep A. I just don’t think, even if they throw money at it, they could get it up, running, and distributed by the end of next week when our ERs are really gonna start seeing patients.
They are talking harvesting antibodies. There isn’t time to engineer a monoclonal lab antibody.
There are numerous reports of hydroxychloroquine efficacy wrt the Wuhan virus yet, what we hear about continually are these “new” drugs that will deal with the Wuhan Virus?
Why?
The hydroxychloroquine drug is reported to be both a preventative and a cure yet, we are deluged with the possibility of “NEW” DRUGS.
Why?
Hydroxychloroquine is 5 cents a pill. Been around since the mid 40’s and is said to be very effective as both a preventative AND a cure.
Yet, the drug companies are pushing the “new” drug.
Why?
Could MONEY be an issue? Hmm? Just asking the question.
THAT's gonna be a problem.
Timing is everything.
The hospitals would seem to be well advised to lay in a supply of all the Malaria meds they can scrounge up.
NYC seems to be the Country's biggest Hot Spot. Cuomo's daily video today was impressive for a 'rat.
I certainly wish NYC well.
Word I’m hearing from the pharmacy bros, the people who bought all the tp have already beat you to the Chloroquine. The pharmacies are out.
I heard FDA chief Dr Hahn say something to that effect in today's presser. Basically extract antibodies from people who have recovered, and clone them I suppose. They will go to patients in the most dire need, but it could be a while before a commercial "Covimab" type drug hits the market.
No doubt.
Most likely the Group of 535 has a good sized sta$h.
I could use a few pills for prophillac use as I make a 1200 mi dash back to the new compound at some point.
No doubt.
Most likely the Group of 535 has a good sized sta$h.
I could use a few pills for prophylactic use as I make a 1200 mi dash back to the new compound at some point.
No, Chloroquine is a terrible drug. Ask anybody who had to take it while deployed. IMHO they are doing the best they can think of. That paper the snake oil guy on Tucker the other night was talking about is embarrassing if you read it. Chloroquine may help but probably nowhere near “100%. Compared to nothing I imagine it improves outcomes 50% tops and that would be a miracle. But if 50% is what you got....
The BEST thing is we all be good and let it die out in two, three weeks and then stomp out the embers and be done. Keep the borders closed 100% for months but let us out of prison in three or four weeks.
I don’t think this is about harvesting antibodies, they are bio-engineering them.
Then they best get moving because they have hours, not days. I fully expect the efforts to push back will start to be seen by March 30. I think whatever the number of deaths are at that time will start to go down and we won’t need the medication much after that.
You can bet by the next round of Chinese virus next year we will have a Corona Vaccine and good drugs.
somewhere on the internet there was a map of the world...one color represented where this corona was hitting and surprisingly, that color was very spotty in parts of Africa and South America where they use chlorquine regularly to treat malaria..
“studies that we’ll do on 200 to 600 people in the summer, probably in July.”
Um, I thought the prevailing wisdom is that this will be naturally eradicated or at least dormant by July, hopefully much sooner?
And a stray thought, will this panic at least lead to something helpful in eradicating the “Regular” flu’s too?
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