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Monday, March 16, 2020

Johns Hopkins University (ScienceAlert, 16 March 2020) - Johns Hopkins Experts Are Trying a Clever Antibody Method From The 1890s on COVID-19.

Title:
Johns Hopkins Experts Are Trying a Clever Antibody Method From The 1890s on COVID-19

Author:
Peter Dockrill

Published:
ScienceAlert, 16 March 2020

From the article:
"Blood from recovered coronavirus patients could be used in a vital stop-gap treatment to help protect humanity from the COVID–19 pandemic currently spreading around the world, researchers propose.  

In a new paper, infectious disease experts explain how viral antibodies, contained in the blood serum of patients who have already recovered from the new coronavirus, could then be injected into other people, offering them short-term protection."

To read this article:
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-classic-therapy-from-the-1890s-could-help-protect-against-coronavirus-experts-say