Recently, the research team of Tsinghua University and American scientists did a study. They studied 300 recovered patients with COVID-19 infection, and extracted a large number of comprehensive antibodies to the COVID-19 virus from their B cells.
What is a comprehensive antibody?
The comprehensive antibody is equivalent to the antidote of COVID-19 virus. As soon as the integrated antibody encounters the COVID-19 virus, it will bind to the virus and kill the virus.
At present, there are no drugs and vaccines specific to COVID-19 in the world, so if researchers can extract this comprehensive antibody from the body of COVID-19 recoverers and inject it into the body of COVID-19 patients, then COVID-19 patients may Will recover.
Are comprehensive antibodies necessarily useful for COVID-19?
Comprehensive antibodies are useful for the existing COVID-19 virus, but if the COVID-19 virus is mutated, the comprehensive antibody may have a counter-productive effect.
In immunology, there is an antibody-dependent enhancement effect. In layman’s terms, before the COVID-19 virus is mutated, if the patient is injected with a comprehensive antibody, the patient can be cured; but if the COVID-19 virus is mutated, if the patient is injected with a comprehensive antibody, it may increase the patient’s condition .
Although the comprehensive antibody will have a negative effect on the mutated COVID-19 virus, this discovery is also a very good thing for the treatment of COVID-19.