I offer this as a way to get us off of European immigration politics for a bit. The quest for a SARS-CoV vaccine progresses.
Addendum The mechanism for this vaccine is a production of an antibody (in animal models) that has as it’s antigen a portion of the Receptor binding domain of the virus, a domain which helps the virus attach to and enter the cell. This would result in an entry block for the virus.
To me this seems like a temporary solution to people who are already infected by the virus, as the vaccine does not set up a permanent immunoresponse in the patient. However, it would be good to “inactivate” and “flush-out” the SARS-CoV out of a previously infected person.
Posted by scottm at 02:52 PM