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Canadian-led study to examine antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients as treatment for others

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COVID-19 can help current patients fight off the illness.Among the centres involved is Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ont.

In a release, researchers explain that when a person is infected with a virus, the immune system produces protein antibodies specific to that virus to “help the body fight the infection.” The antibodies stick around after a person has recovered to provide “a degree of long-term immunity.” London, Ont., researchers the first to profile immune response to COVID-19 Researchers are hoping that “convalescent plasma” — plasma from a person who’s recovered from an illness — can help fight serious infection in people who are currently fighting the virus.“This is an experiment; we don’t yet know if this treatment.

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