The Elephant In The Room

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(04-29-2020, 04:01 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Another question is why don't we just inject healthy people with antibodies from recovered patients?

I'm gonna answer this one for you.  We do inject immunoglobulins (antibodies) into people in some situations.

For example, if you are exposed to Hepatitis B and haven't received the vaccination you would get a shot of HBIG (hep B antibodies) and start the vaccination series for hepatitis.

Antibodies aren't antigens so they can't stimulate your body to produce your own antibodies.

They are working on developing something like this with the convalescent plasma treatments.  I'm not sure, but I don't think have had enough time or resources to produce a Covid-19 immunoglobulin shot, yet.  But, if they could we still need a vaccination to be able to produce our own antibodies.

Does that make sense?