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by f_allwein 7y ago
Was it this one? https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-s...
> It’s not a vaccine. Think about it as the administration of a protein, it’s a liquid that is given to people that gives them immunity.
> Right. Because the vaccine would provoke the recipient’s antibodies. You'll have the antibodies, but they won't be your antibodies—though it'll do the same thing.
- nil-sec 7y agoYes. What do you want to say with the quotes from the article? Yes it is not a vaccine, neither are antiviral treatments.
- throwaway4787 7y agoThe antiviral treatments undergoing trial are (for the most part) very inexpensive drugs that have been known for years or even decades so they don't need additional testing once they're proven to work and can be manufactured at scale almost immediately (since the production chains already exist).
- throwanem 7y agoThis is only true of the chloroquines, and those are antiparasitics, not antivirals.