Any time a company mentions antibodies then touts them as a cure unless what was written was what the writer thought was being said should be taken with vast amounts of salt. The idea of antibodies is to prevent a disease not to cure it after the fact.

OK... 100% cure...exclusive report to fox news...

I'll believe it when I see it.

We can always hope. We'll get there eventually. Technical details I'll leave to those trained to handle them.

We can only hope that this or something else will be the miracle we need. I think we have to keep hope alive. Yes we can!

The idea of antibodies is to prevent a disease not to cure it after the fact.

If that is the case, then why is plasma from recovered Covid patients being used to treat Covid sufferers?

Antibodies are what your body produces both as a result of infection and after receiving a vaccine. They are what protects you from illness by clearing the offending virus or bacteria before they replicate enough in the body to produce the symptoms we know as illness.

The question would be how long would the injected antibodies stay in the circulatory system and would they train the B-cells to produce an effective antibody.

The Race is On to Find the Holy Grail of Covid-19 Antibodies

This is an interesting article that goes more in-depth on antibody therapy.

It is not yet known if the plasma that was injected was the reason for the cures or the person that received it was already starting to recover. It was not tried on moderately ill people only mild cases. More study is needed.

It is not yet known if the plasma that was injected was the reason for the cures or the person that received it was already starting to recover. It was not tried on moderately ill people only mild cases.

Do you have a citation for that?

This is clipped from the Race Is On article that I linked above:

The notion of using antibodies to treat infections dates back more than a hundred years. In the 1890s, scientists started treating people with serum, or plasma — the clear part of the blood that contains antibodies — taken from horses that had been immunized against diseases like diphtheria and tetanus. It proved to be a life-saving approach, and it earned the scientist who spearheaded its use, Emil von Behring, the first Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901.

One clinical trial, from doctors at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, will try to determine whether "convalescent plasma" injected into hospitalized COVID-19 patients can protect them from developing severe disease or requiring a ventilator.

This trial will be conducted on patients sick enough to be hospitalized--which I would think would qualify as more than 'mild cases.' And obviously aimed as disease treatment for those patients rather than disease prevention.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200513/trials-test-survivors-blood-as-covid19-treatment#1

And, from the trial to determine the safety of using convalescent plasma therapy:

Of the 5,000 seriously ill patients who received blood plasma transfusions for the study, fewer than 1 percent experienced serious adverse events. The mortality rate seven days after treatment was 14.9 percent, but the researchers noted the infusion patients were already gravely ill and the rate "does not appear excessive."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/convalescent-plasma-safe-treat-covid-19-nationwide-study-n1206126

Here's some more food for thought about antibodies: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/t-cells-found-covid-19-patients-bode-well-long-term-immunity#

Interestingly enough, I just listened to Larry Brilliant discuss antibodies, among other things, like the ethical considerations of testing vaccines on volunteers...

https://alfranken.com/listen/epidemiologist-larry-brilliant-on-where-we-go-from-here