A doctor who was featured in the Netflix Documentary "Pandemic" says he has found a potential cure for the Coronavirus!
It is now being tested by the military!
Jacob Glanville runs the biotech company Distributed Bio, sent out a tweet about the new antibody therapy, which works by “blocking the novel coronavirus from infecting human cells,” is a “candidate cure” for the deadly bug.
This is what the doctor said
“I’m happy to report that my team has successfully taken five antibodies that back in 2002 were determined to bind and neutralize, block and stop the SARS virus,” Glanville told the Radio New Zealand program Checkpoint. “We’ve evolved them in our laboratory, so now they very vigorously block and stop the SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] virus as well.”
It sounds promising but there is a downside...
“You could give it to a patient who’s sick, experiencing COVID-19, then within 20 minutes of receiving the shot, their body is flooded with those antibodies,” Glanville said. “Those antibodies will surround and stick all over a virus and make it so it’s no longer infectious. You could also give it to a doctor or a nurse or an elderly person and they would then have those antibodies in them that would prevent them from getting infected in the first place.”
The downside is these antibodies will only protect recipients for 8 to 10 weeks, unlike a true vaccine.
This doctor's team has partnered with two other companies to help produce the drug but it still might be a few months until human trials can start!
Hopefully they can find a way to accelerate the process! AND if this works, maybe it will give us a better idea about the virus and find a true vaccine and cure!