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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by adrianN on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:43AM (#22662699)
Since it ends in mab I assume it's a monoclonal antibody. Those are expensive as fuck because they're so difficult to make. I wonder whether we could scale production up to meet pandemic demand.
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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by hprotagonist on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:58AM (#22664694)
mabs are not a straight small molecule synth. Scale as much as you want, growing them takes a while even in parallel.

(this is more or less also why vaccine timelines are so long; chicken eggs take a bit of time to get going, and that's the best breeding ground we have!)

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