Re:No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed sever...
by shabda on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:18AM
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Also, Anybody who has received an organ transplant is immunosuppressed. They take immunosuppressive drugs so that the transplanted organ is not rejected.
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Re:No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed sever...
by raducu on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:11PM
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It would be so nice if those people could have access to a coctail of synthetic antibodies that gave some protection to covid-19, the flu and others. Or perhaps a generic antibody that protects against most viruses(unlikely, given such an atibody does not exist in nature).
Re:No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed sever...
by duskwuff on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:24PM
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Antibodies don't themselves help fight infections; their role is simply to identify dangerous pathogens to white blood cells. In immunosuppressed patients, those cells often aren't present (or aren't responding properly), so adding antibodies wouldn't help.