“Since there are people who recover from coronavirus, we can safely say that they have developed the antibodies necessary for this cure. So could we not, from a blood test, identify these antibodies in order to make them either a vaccine or at least a medicine against this virus? ” Asks Martin Paradis, of Saint-Martin-de- Beauce. The ‘re Antibodies are proteins that the immune system produces so they “cling” to a pathogen (virus, bacteria, toxin) and off. So technically, we cannot make a vaccine from antibodies: vaccines are rather weak or dead microbes, or often “pieces” of microbes that we present to the immune system so that it learns to…
