UNC, Duke scientists identify new antibody that neutralizes coronaviruses
 

I know.. I said I was out but I found this one interesting because I didn't see or hear anything about it. You'd think this would have made national news headlines. I thought others here might find it interesting as well.

Enjoy!

https://chapelboro.com/news/coronavirus-covid-19/unc-duke-scientists-identify-new-antibody-to-fight-covid-19-and-its-variants

I get most of my news info from local sources .... interviews with some of the best... anywhere. Duke, Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, etc., their scientists and medical centers, then tune out most of the rest ;).

....and welcome back :) .... now stick around and carry on....

Welcome to Hotel California! ;)

Your article reminded me of something I saw in a local newsfeed a day or two ago.

https://www.nbc29.com/2021/12/01/update-uvas-research-behind-potential-covid-19-vaccine-capable-against-any-variant/


I saw the headline (didn't read the article), but at the time, wondered more if local universities/news were publishing similar local research articles in their own hometowns.

Evidently they are! :D

Makes me wonder what other local research is being highlighted across the country without national headlines.

my dad is on the board of a company that makes an oral rinse called Retar Dex. It has been shown to eliminate the Covid virus on contact.

Makes you wonder why it's found primarily in local news. The vaccine being developed by Army scientists at Walter Reed is actually what brought me to the news about UNC and Duke. I had heard about it earlier in the year but never heard much beyond that so I was looking to see where things were at with it.

https://www.usmedicine.com/clinical-topics/infectious-disease/wrair-tests-vaccine-for-covid-19-and-future-pathogens/

Strong point!

Thanks for the thread Nick.

Oh, and locally, the Univ. of Washington has something in trails.

As far as information goes, the brave new world is that of controlling information streams. - Notice how quickly Spacebook Twits and Alphabits shutdown unapproved information.

Some of the lesser-known monoclonal antibody drugs are (preliminary data, subject to confirmation) effective against Omicron. For example the GSK/VIR sotrovimab - which is why VIR is +50% since last Thursday night when mapping of Omicron's mutation sites strongly suggested that the REGN LLY mAb would lose effectiveness and the GSK mAb would not.

The really cool thing is that GSK recently got clinical trial data showing the intramuscular injection dosing is as effective as the intravenous infusion dosing; since IM is just a shot instead of the hour on a IV drip, this could make GSK's mAb far more used than the REGN/LLY mAbs have ever been.

The PFE oral antiviral also targets a highly conserved site that is common to SARS and SARS2 and, I think, to other coronaviruses. It inhibits replication of the virus and thus works upstream of the mAbs that attack virus after replication.

The two classes of drugs could even be used together.

My view is that in 2022, with increasing vaccination rate, boosters, and new therapeutics, the USA and other rich/developed countries should be pretty resilient to new Covid variants.

The developing world will still be very short of vaccines and therapeutics - but amply supplied with anti-vax disinformation and the political groups that exploit it - so they will continue to be eff'd and churn out new Covid strains that will circle the globe.

Hopefully one of those won't turn out to be the "Voldemort strain" that breaks through all the vaccine and therapeutic defenses built up over the last two years.

China seems unwilling to buy the Western drugs (astonishingly, despite Chinese pharma Fuson holding a license for the Pfizer vaccine since 2020, China still hasn't approved it), hasn't as yet developed its own equals (even African countries are not actively taking the Chinese vaccines, in part because of the prices the Chinese are charging), so it is sticking to its "zero Covid" policy and probably will at least through the Winter Olympics. Stupid, but whatever.

Incidentally, REGN will sell about $5BN this year of its mAb REGN-COV while VIR's market cap is $6BN.

Good to hear from you, Nick. You are needed here, in whatever capacity you can provide.

The MSM and our elected officials don't like good news like this.
You can't control the masses with good news. You need fear and dependence.

Nick,
Thanks for sharing this info. It is yet another breakthrough in research to finally end this nonsense...

IDK, Z...

This sounds like they have identified one (naturally produced) antibody that fights the corona viruses.

They do not say that they have a way to produce this antibody.
They do talk about stockpiling. (harvesting?)

This may be seen as a threat to the glorious emergency use "vaccines" as it suggests that people have natural defenses to corona viruses. Fauci et al can not have that. They have some more fear to sell.

Funny as didn't china make the same claims?

Lol et al! Yeah that's a nice way to put it.

Yes, humans have immune systems and those immune systems defeat Covid as well as many other viruses - some of the time. Some of the time isn’t all the time. 750,000 dead Americans could tell you that - if you were able to listen to anyone but yourself.

:rolleyes:
The official number is over 800k dead that could tell you that - if you were able to listen to anyone but yourself.

Seriously, why so dickie?

Prolly bc he got the vax and feels bait and switched

AH. Yes. That must sting.

Especially when the vax wears off so quickly - seems more like a therapeutic that way, but by calling it a vaccine it sounds safe/effective AND gives the manufacturer immunity.

Good read about work on vaccines and different ones that are currently in or will soon be in human trials.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vaccine-scientists-have-been-chasing-variants-now-theyre-seeking-a-universal-coronavirus-vaccine/ar-AATQkrp?li=BBnb7Kz

“ At minimum, the world needs a truly variant-proof vaccine. Even better would be a shot that would also stop a future pandemic, protecting against a yet-unknown coronavirus that will jump from animals into people in the years to come.”

Lol