Dutch researchers find antibody which may lead to anti-corona medicine.

[2greys]

Researchers from the University of Utrecht and the Erasmus medical centre have developed a human antibody which, they say ‘offers potential for prevention and treatment of COVID-19’. It is important not to give false hope but the discovery is promising, research leader Berend-Jan Bosch says on the UU website. ‘But it is still too soon to speculate about its eventual working on people.’ The research is currently awaiting peer review before it can be published in the prestigious science journal Nature.

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[Badbessie]

This is good news and given the news that scientists have developed a vaccine that could soon be tested after permission is given for human tests it does give hope. However in the long term only. It will take a year.

[2greys in reply to Badbessie]

Maybe not a year for this, given the urgency and with human volunteers, the Dutch are a very progressive society and this is not a vaccine, it is a treatment for those infected.

‘Before it can be marketed, the antibody must go through an extensive development phase and be tested for toxicological properties,’ Erasmus professor Frank Grosveld told Erasmus Magazine. ‘That process is now underway. In addition to the development as a medicine, we also want to use the antibody to set up a diagnostic test: one that everyone can do from home, so that people can easily find out whether they have an infection or not.’ Grosveld says he expects that if the medicine were taken, it would stop the infection and give the patient time to recover."

[Badbessie in reply to 2greys]

Sorry my comments were in relation to the vaccine not the Dutch discovery.

[2greys in reply to Badbessie]

An easy mistake with the news of many vaccines in the pipeline This definitely gives the vulnerable hope until a working vaccine does come through.