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This is outright wrong. Monoclonal antibodies are, as you say, a treatment. They are not used to prevent infection in the first place. They lessen the severity
by bastawhiz 5y ago
This is outright wrong.
Monoclonal antibodies are, as you say, a treatment. They are not used to prevent infection in the first place. They lessen the severity of the disease but do essentially nothing to avoid its transmission.
You cannot end a pandemic without stopping the disease from spreading. For one, monoclonal antibodies do nothing to stop transmission. Second, their supply is constrained and availability is limited. Third, it cannot be used in all cases, most notably for folks whose symptoms have already become severe.
- shock 5y ago> Monoclonal antibodies are, as you say, a treatment. They are not used to prevent infection in the first place. They lessen the severity of the disease but do essentially nothing to avoid its transmission. You, fundamentally, do not understand how antibodies work. Just as with the antibodies from a vaccine, if the monoclonal antibodies are in your blood before contact with an infected person you will not get sick. So, monoclonal antibodies can be used profilactically, if so desired.
- brewdad 5y ago> if the monoclonal antibodies are in your blood before contact with an infected person you will not get sick. So now you are advocating vaccination by another name.
- bastawhiz 5y agoFirst, that's not how monoclonal antibodies are designed to be administered. Second, that's not how they are administered (anywhere). Third, even if they were, we would call it a vaccine. Why don't we? Because they're many orders of magnitude more expensive than the actual vaccines which are designed to be used prophylactically and do not provide the immunity.