Good news on the 206 antibodies scientists isolated from 8 COVID patients [View all]

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Study of 206 monoclonal antibodies against #SARSCoV2 isolated from 8 #COVID19 patients. Some antibody clones are highly effective at neutralizing live SARS-CoV-2 virus in cells, suggesting that we now know human antibody sequences that would be effective COVID-19 drugs.

In addition, the authors observed interesting cross-reactivity of antibodies against SARS-CoV & MERS-CoV trimeric spike protein, but not against SARS-CoV & MERS-CoV spike receptor-binding domain, suggesting unusual antibody response viral specificity (2/2) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Yes, very good news. There are now multiple reports of monoclonal (we know exactly which protein sequence needs to be manufactured) human (should be quite safe as drugs) antibodies that block the #SARSCoV2 virus that causes #COVID19. Same strategy as was used to treat Ebola.

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Annotated table of current #COVID19 #COVID2019 therapeutics and vaccines in development, listing developer, clinical phase, timing, & sources, assembled by the @MilkenInstitute. Current tally: 71 therapeutics in development, and 47 vaccines in development. milkeninstitute.org/sites/default/…