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Originally Posted by AuntiePam
So -- people who had it and survived are donating plasma, supposedly with antibodies, and the plasma is being used to treat infected people. So if the antibodies can help someone who is sick, why don't the antibodies prevent someone from catching it again?.
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Because the antibodies only hang around in the donee a short while, basically like a drug. They don't teach the body how to make the antibodies.
This treatment you're talking about isn't happening in any real sense. They're testing methods. The WHO isn't promising infection=immunity even now. If the plasma therapy was already running, they would be.
Eta: and it has nothing to do with mutations in the virus.