posted on Apr, 17 2022 @ 01:56 PM
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: chr0naut
Monoclonal antibodies are effective.
Are high risk covid patients actually being treated with them now though?
I have heard that they are good for snake bites.
Yes, monoclonal antibodies are being used, but they also aren't a magic cure-all. A few people are still dying from COVID-19 despite being vaccinated,
and treated with monoclonal antibodies, and antivirals. That is the way most disease treatments function - imperfectly, but in the majority of cases,
they do save lives.
Current monoclonal antibodies are unlikely to have an effect against complex poisons like snake venom. There is research into using various
recombinant treatments to target different proteins in snake toxins, but any final product would be a mix of several of these because of the profusion
if proteins that they would have to work against. As far as I know, there is no currently marketed monoclonal antivenin available.
Taking the bite
out of snake venom - ACS
... and in regard to COVID-19 conspiracy theories involving snakes:
Snakes On a
Gain...of Function?