COVID-19

SARS2 coronavirus immunity, re-infection and convalescent plasma as treatment for COVID-19 (#9)

Video number 9 discussing the potential for immunity against, or re-infection with SARS-CoV-2. And building on those ideas, discussing the use of convalescent patient plasma as a potential therapeutic for COVID-19.

I remembered that timestamps are a thing (learning YouTube slowly)!
Started with housekeeping was to mention better sound quality and the BioRxiv paper linked below.
0:01:52 – Start of the immunity discussion and a study in monkeys that suggests immunity to re-infection with SARS-CoV-2
0:03:28 – What we know about coronavirus immunity in humans
0:04:56 – SARS-CoV-2 and reports of re-infection
0:05:53 – Convalescent patient plasma discussion

Our labs paper on FDA approved drugs with broad anti-coronavirus activity for or anyone that wants to have a read and hasn’t already seen me post it elsewhere –

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