re: #195 Dopamine Fish

That’s enormous. If we can start producing this as a booster to the original vaccines, it could have the potential yo actually win this war.

It’s in-vitro research regarding an antibody produced uniquely by individual humans. Early on (pre-vaccines) in this Great Clusterfuck attempts were made to treat and protect individuals using plasma derived from blood donations from previously infected individuals since this plasma was shown to be loaded with antibodies against COVID-19 proteins. The data from this treatment process was analysed, it was found it didn’t work (your antibodies are not someone else’s antibodies, basically) and the treatment was abandoned.

The key development from this one-paper-research news is maybe, with a lot of work and effort, vaccines might be modified and tuned to encourage the production of particular antibodies if it can be proved in large-scale tests that doing so improves the efficacy of the vaccines. Maybe, might, if, proved, tests — lots of caveats.