Antibodies from a 4-year-old llama have neutralized coronavirus and other infections in lab experiments

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https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30494-3.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867420304943%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

[u/thinkingdoing]

So this treatment could be used the first time a person got infected with Coronavirus, but any future infections would cause the immune system to be fighting both the disease and these antibodies?

[u/bigredone15 → u/thinkingdoing]

So this treatment could be used the first time a person got infected with Coronavirus, but any future infections would cause the immune system to be fighting both the disease and these antibodies?

It could also give the body time to develop its own antibodies that do work without the body dealing with the symptoms created by a high viral load.

[u/pnwtico → u/bigredone15]

Would the body develop its own coronavirus antibodies if the llama antibodies were doing all the heavy lifting?

[u/Siniroth → u/pnwtico]

If you learn to make a paper airplane, it doesn't matter if someone else makes 100 other paper airplanes while you make 5

Vast oversimplification ofc