4 top drugmakers are studying the body's own efforts to fight off viruses as they race to find a COVID-19 treatment that could be ready by the fall
On the other extreme, more than 70 vaccine research efforts are underway. If successful, a vaccine could help decisively end the pandemic. Researchers are moving with historic speed, withBut it will take time to fully test a vaccine to see if it works and ramp up production to meet the world's demand.
In response to detecting an invading threat, the human body's immune system produces virus-fighting antibodies. In this case, that invader is the novel coronavirus, which infects cells and hijacks them to produce more of the virus. It's a more modern version of using convalescent plasma, or the blood of sick patients, to treat COVID-19 patients. In that case
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