New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests

Post by codefreeordie » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 3:16 AM UTC

Post by water8 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 4:03 AM UTC

Post by water8 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 4:10 AM UTC

Teever wrote: post #5

codefreeordie wrote: post #2

Hopefully this proves to be effective -- and hopefully it doesn't merely encourage this particular binding site to mutate more rapidly.

I was under the impression that we can mutate it into a corner because there are only so many shapes it can mutate into before it doesn't work and the virus can't get into cells.

Post by Kerrick » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 4:12 AM UTC

jjcon wrote: post #7

Can anyone with more knowledge on this topic than me (I’m no expert) assuage my fears: by giving human populations such artificial resistances (non-live vaccines) we run the risk of selecting for viruses that are even harder for even our own immune systems to detect and destroy. Current Covid strains don’t seem all that bad, basically everyone I know has been infected now. Might we run the risk of making things worse…

Post by lazide » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 4:25 AM UTC

jjcon wrote: post #9

Kerrick wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reducing the spread of existing variants reduces the number of replications the virus can make, which in turn reduces the occurrence of mutations.

But it is always going to continue to spread won’t it? A vaccine may slow it down which is good but my fear is that long term non-live vaccines like this could just make things worse when used with such a volatile virus.