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Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by m0zg on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:18AM (#22614115)
Be that as it may, it's still way too expensive to be of use when treating millions of patients, even if the necessary quantities could be quickly produced, which they can not.
Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by hcknwscommenter on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:40AM (#22614212)
~10K for an effective single-dose treatment is not that expensive. Admittedly this is a very crude calculation, but it's probably not too far off. Moreover, mAb production is a very mature technology, that can be scaled up by just growing more cells. I'm not saying we are close to getting this into the clinic, but it is a very interesting result.
Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by m0zg on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:47AM (#22614481)
Across 100M people that's a cool trillion dollars.
Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by newsbinator on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:03AM (#22614557)
True, but even if we're only talking dollars, we'd have to compare that trillion to the economic amount lost by not inoculating.
Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by imtringued on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:53AM (#22616035)
There would be a lot of dead people but the economic impact of those deaths would be pretty insignificant because highest fatality rate is for people in their 80s.
Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by op00to on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:01PM (#22618087)
I think you underestimate the psycho-social effects of having millions of deaths.