British pharmaceutical giant, whose coronavirus vaccine faces European safety doubts, announces it will provide 700,000 doses of a potential treatment for virus
In early 2020, donors recruited by the Covid Plasma Initiative supplied 50% of the nation's plasma, also demonstrating the treatment's efficacy and paving the way to widespread use
US government health bodies warn there's not nearly enough data to prove efficacy, but doctors report no deaths among thousands of high-risk patients prescribed the new treatment
Infectious disease chief advising Health Ministry warns against using serology tests in rollout of 'green passport,' since body fights reinfection even after antibodies fade
Research by UN and Switzerland shows that even though the level of antibodies fade, body maintains sufficient memory B cells, and they manage to stave off reinfection
Antibody treatment could be used to reduce deaths in nursing homes if immediately deployed upon discovery of infection; 10 people injected so far upon exposure to pathogen
One paper shows body retains high level of memory B cells for lengthy period; two others examining statistics indicate reinfection chances very low for at least half a year
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